Fishermen and Scientist Research Society (FSRS) Lobster Recruitment Trap Project

The lobster recruitment project is run by the Fishermen and Scientist Research Society (FSRS) through DFO funding. Fishermen participating in the lobster recruitment project collect information about lobster in their fishing area by fishing 2-5 scientific project traps (SPTs) (fished in fixed locations) within the regular commercial season. The SPTs used in all fishing areas are smaller than commercial traps and designed to primarily catch juvenile lobsters below the legal-size limit.

These traps are additional to the vessel's legal number of commercial traps. The lobster recruitment project has more than 120 fishers participating from all LFAs along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia from LFA 27 in Cape Breton to LFA 35 in the Bay of Fundy (excluding LFA 28, who have not participated to-date).

The number of fishermen per LFA and number of SPTs per fisherman are decided on by the LFA Advisory Committees. This decision considers how much additional effort they were comfortable having in the LFA (i.e. number of SPTs) and from how many traps each fisher could be reasonably expected to collect data. It is also important to have fishers dispersed enough to maximize study footprint. DFO Science consults on project design.

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The fishers record the number, sex and length of lobsters captured in each SPT, as well as presence of eggs, tags or v-notch. Bottom temperatures are monitored by placing a temperature recorder in one of their SPTs for the entire lobster season.

Cite this data as: Tibbets-Scott, S., Zisserson, B. Data of: Fishermen and Scientist Research Society (FSRS) Lobster Recruitment Trap Project. Published: November 2020. Population Ecology Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, N.S. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a88f9b4d-b59a-44f6-ae7e-d36550266940

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Date ( RI_366 )
1998-01-01
Date ( RI_367 )
2020-10-23
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Ben Zisserson ( Aquatic Science Biologist III )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
(902) 426-9325
RI_408
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Population Ecology Division / Division de l’écologie des populations ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
Purpose
Monitoring the population of lobsters through the use of standardized traps and sampling throughout Lobster Fishing Areas (LFAs) 27-35 on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia (DFO Maritimes Region).
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
annually; annuel RI_539
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Homarus americanus
DFO Areas Zones du MPO ( RI_525 )
  • Arctic Ocean
  • North Atlantic Ocean
  • Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy
  • Scotian Shelf
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Fisheries resources
  • Marine biology
  • Oceans
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use limitation
Fishing locations for individual fishers is considered to be "Protected B" data.
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Biota
Begin date
1998
Description
Atlantic coast from Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia to Alma, New Brunswick
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326
Distribution format
  • ESRI REST ( 10.6.1 )

  • WFS ( 1.1.0 )

  • WMS ( 1.1.1 )

RI_414
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Population Ecology Division / Division de l’écologie des population ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Data Acquisition Assembly and Distribution / Acquisition, assemblage et distribution de donnée ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
OnLine resource
FSRS web site ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
FSRS Lobster Recruitment Trap Locations ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
FSRS Lobster Recruitment Trap Locations ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Fishermen and Scientist Research Society (FSRS) Lobster Recruitment Trap Project ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;zxx

File identifier
a88f9b4d-b59a-44f6-ae7e-d36550266940 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2022-10-05T16:49:04
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Population Ecology Division / Division de l’écologie des population ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
 
 

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