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…
Category: Science & Conservation
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…
St Anns Bank- Marine Protected Area
The Cape Breton Fish Harvesters Association (previously the LFA27 Management Board) represents inshore owner-operator fish harvesters in Eastern Cape Breton many of whom are fishing or have historically fished in…
Modeling the Drift of Lobster Larvae
Guest post by Brady K. Quinn, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB After lobster eggs hatch, baby lobsters, called larvae, are released into the ocean. These larvae spend the first 3-8 weeks…
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…