Homarus Inc. and Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Working together to better understand the nursery grounds for Eastern Canada's lobster fishery

Homarus Inc. and Fisheries and Oceans Canada – Working together to better understand the nursery grounds for Eastern Canada's lobster fishery

Alright, we’re going to put Juliana in the water.

Here’s good for lobster.

There we go! There he is!

Maryse Cousineau, Assistant Director, Homarus Centre: Today we’re going to go out, check some stations monitoring dissolved oxygen, temperatures, salinity and pH also.

Nicolas Paquet, Technician, Homarus Centre: He’s moving around, looking for some food.

This helps to ensure a sustainable fishery that can continue on for generations and generations.

This work is for the Oceans Management Conservation Program.

With Homarus Inc., and the Maritime Fishermen’s Union, industry conducts science and works with partners like the federal government. 

Krista MacKenzie, Senior Biologist, Marine Conservation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Lessons that we’re learning from this partnership: we can accomplish so much more together.

It’s important that we learn as much as we can so that we can adjust our management of marine refuges such as our Scallop Buffer Zones SFA 21 and 22.

A marine refuge is a defined area established for the long-term conservation of important species and habitats.

Norbert Gaudet, Lobster Fisherman, Maritime Fisherman’s Union: Scientists are working with harvesters, so we are starting to know more about the habitats and what is going on.

It’s really interesting to be able to showcase the science that we’re doing with fishermen to the general public at the Centre.
Welcome to the Homarus Centre.

Visitors are able to learn all about the lifecycle of the lobster and also the marine ecosystem from the Northumberland Strait.
Here is Thomas, he’s 4 years old, and he’s had an extraordinary experience.

The more you know about the ocean, the more you know about the species and the critters that live there, the more you will want to be involved and you’ll want to protect it.

All done, and heading back home.