Meet Your 2018 Lobster Technicians!
Bhreagh Krszwda – “Hi there, I’m Bhreagh and this is my second year as a lobster technician with the Cape Breton Fisher Harvesters Association. I reside in Albert Bridge when I’m not…
Author: Veronika Brzeski
Striped Bass
The Cape Breton Fish Harvesters Association is concerned about the recent increase in Striped Bass in the waters around Cape Breton. Alarm bells are being sounded by smelt harvesters, lobster harvesters, and recreational fishers. They are voracious eaters preying on our important economic and endangered species
Update – St. Anns Bank MPA
St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area (MPA) was designated on June 2, 2017. As a result, fisheries restrictions are now in effect. All recreational and commercial fisheries (with the exception…
Atlantic Halibut
Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) have both their eyes on the right side of their bodies and swim with the right side facing the surface. They are distinguished from other flat…
Cape Breton Exhibition 2015
From August 17 to 21, the LFA27 Management Board crew (aka Cape Breton Lobster) manned a booth at the Cape Breton Exhibition in North Sydney. The goal of the exhibit…
Snow Crab in Eastern Cape Breton
Snow crab harvesters in Eastern Cape Breton operate in 3 different areas. Areas, season and management of the fishery is described.
Lobster Genetics
Guest post by Laura Benestan, graduate student with the NSERC Canadian Fisheries Research Network Imagine being responsible for managing a moose population, which includes a hunt. To do it sustainably…
Videotaping lobster
Video of lobster escaping helps the lobster harvesters understand how short lobster escape from hatches.
Lobster eggs, hatching time and larval drift
We sample eggs and measure water temperature to predict hatching time for lobster.
Why are some clutches abnormal?
At sea sampling indicates that some berried females carry abnormal clutches which means decreased egg production. Feng Tang is trying to find out why.
Monitoring Lobster Quality
Weekly sampling of various ports indicate that the lobster landed in Eastern Cape Breton is of high quality.
At sea sampling
How sustainable is our fishery? There are many ways to assess sustainability of a fishery: some very sophisticated methodologies using complex data programs and fancy equipment and some much simpler but easier…
Tagging Lobsters and Conservation
Since 1993, lobster harvesters in Eastern Cape Breton have participated in research which tagged and retrieved lobster to monitor their movement and growth. The results: Lobster don’t move much from year…
Port Morien
Port Morien is a beautiful fishing village in south eastern Cape Breton. The name was incorporated in 1895. Previously, it was called Cowbay. Coal Mining was prominent from 1859 to…
Berried Female Lobster
It is illegal to keep a berried female.
Unlike the roe, or red eggs inside a cooked lobster, these black eggs glued to the outside of the tail are fertilized. After 9 to 12 months of carrying them on the swimmerets, the eggs will hatch into tiny lobster larvae that float on the surface of the ocean for 6 to 8 weeks.