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.
Traps all ready to go!
Hours after our day even started
Lobster posing for the camera
Petit Passage, Digby, NS
Recruitment trap
Shannon, FSRS’s Director of Operations, interacting with eager young minds at the BIO Expo
Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, teaching visitors about lobster physiology
FSRS information table at the 2016 Annual Conference
A crew member emptying a recruitment trap
Crew member sampling cod during the sentinel survey
This strange looking fish is a lumpfish!
Early morning in Wine Harbour
A fisherman measuring a lobster with their scientific recruitment gauge
Long time Lobster Recruitment participant, Randy Boutilier, and his crew on a sea-sampling day in Tangier, NS
2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside
Vice President, Hughie Boutilier, emptying a recruitment trap
There’s beauty at all hours of the day
FSRS Team!
V-notching a lobster in LFA 32
A bright morning for the first haul day on the Eastern Shore
The Ashley & Travis leaving for the sentinel survey
Wine Harbour, NS
Teamwork during a rainy v-notching day in Mushaboom, NS
Some young helpers during Eastern Shore V-notching in Sober Island
Lobster collector deployment in Lobster Bay, NS
2016 Annual Conference at the Best Western, Burnside
Communications Committee member, Randy Baker, speaking to the public during the BIO Expo
Hauling a trap during sea sampling
V-notching in Sober Island
Lobster during a sea sample
Ange’s 2022 goal is to find a lobster even bigger than this beauty
Processing lobster collectors in False Bay, Cape Breton
Tangier, NS
Sampling at sunrise never gets old
Liz holding a 1-year-old lobster caught in a lobster collector in False Bay, Cape Breton
Fish on the sentinel survey
A calm morning at the wharf in Tangier, NS
Juvenile lobster
Fishermen getting ready to pull up traps during a sampling trip
A recently-settled lobster found during the collector study
Welcome to the Captain’s Seat
A recently-settled lobster from the collector study
Sampling with long-time Lobster Recruitment participant, Hugh MacDonald, and his cre
FSRS 2016 Staff and volunteers at the Annual Conference in Dartmouth, NS
Panelists from this year’s conference
Only the experienced dare near her when in operation
Marie Joseph
Sunny sampling in Ecum Secum
Just wow!
At-sea sampling with Brandon
Juvenile lobster caught in one of our recruitment traps
We do more than lobster
Lobsters help with research too!
A lobster saying “hello” during sea sampling in Marie Joseph, NS
Another beautiful sampling day
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