Gallery

Check out the FSRS photo gallery to see examples of the research, communication, and sampling initiatives that have been, and are currently being, conducted. Be sure to check out the captions to learn more about who was involved and what is pictured.

At-sea sampling with Brandon

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

Early morning in Wine Harbour

Hours after our day even started

2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside

Lobster posing for the camera

Vice President, Hughie Boutilier, emptying a recruitment trap

This strange looking fish is a lumpfish!

Sampling at sunrise never gets old

Petit Passage, Digby, NS

Liz holding a 1-year-old lobster caught in a lobster collector in False Bay, Cape Breton

Fish on the sentinel survey

Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, speaking to the public during the BIO Expo

Juvenile lobster

A crew member emptying a recruitment trap

The Ashley & Travis leaving for the sentinel survey

Wine Harbour, NS

Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, teaching visitors about lobster physiology

There’s beauty at all hours of the day

Traps all ready to go!

A bright morning for the first haul day on the Eastern Shore

FSRS 2016 Staff and volunteers at the Annual Conference in Dartmouth, NS

Long time Lobster Recruitment participant, Randy Boutilier, and his crew on a sea-sampling day in Tangier, NS

Lobster collector deployment in Lobster Bay, NS

A calm morning at the wharf in Tangier, NS

FSRS Team!

A recently-settled lobster from the collector study

V-notching in Sober Island

Hauling a trap during sea sampling

Marie Joseph

Ange’s 2022 goal is to find a lobster even bigger than this beauty

Tangier, NS

Only the experienced dare near her when in operation

V-notching a lobster in LFA 32

Welcome to the Captain’s Seat

Crew member sampling cod during the sentinel survey

Sampling with long-time Lobster Recruitment participant, Hugh MacDonald, and his cre

Teamwork during a rainy v-notching day in Mushaboom, NS

Panelists from this year’s conference

Sunny sampling in Ecum Secum

Recruitment trap

Lobster during a sea sample

Another beautiful sampling day

Lobsters help with research too!

Processing lobster collectors in False Bay, Cape Breton

Some young helpers during Eastern Shore V-notching in Sober Island

Shannon, FSRS’s Director of Operations, interacting with eager young minds at the BIO Expo

A recently-settled lobster found during the collector study

Just wow!

Fishermen getting ready to pull up traps during a sampling trip

A fisherman measuring a lobster with their scientific recruitment gauge

A lobster saying “hello” during sea sampling in Marie Joseph, NS

Juvenile lobster caught in one of our recruitment traps

FSRS information table at the 2016 Annual Conference

We do more than lobster