Lobster Science Section

Table of Contents

• Mandate
• Science Advisory reports and Stock Assessment reports
• Publications
• The American Lobster (Homarus americanus)
• Photo gallery

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Mandate

The lobster section performs stock and fishery assessments, conducts studies aimed at answering specific questions on this species and provides scientific advice on conservation measures. The goal is to improve our knowledge in this species and the fishery which in turn will help fishers and fishery managers maintain healthy lobster populations. The lobster section is also responsible for the rock crab stock assessment which is a preferential prey species for lobster.

Science Advisory reports and Stock Assessment reports

Science Advisory Reports

• Science Advisory Reports 2007/035
  Framework and Assessment for Lobster (Homarus Americanus) in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Lobster Fishing Areas 23, 24, 25, 26A and 26B.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2006/004
  Assessment of the lobster stocks of the Gaspé Peninsula (LFAs 19, 20, and 21) in 2005.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2006/009
  An Assessment of American Lobster in Newfoundland.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2006/012
  Assessment of the Lobster Stocks of the Magdalen Islands (LFA 22) in 2005.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2006/024
  Framework Assessment for Lobster (Homarus americanus) in Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 34.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2005/004
  Lobster on the North Shore (LFA's 15, 16 and 18) and around Anticosti Island (LFA 17) in 2004.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2005/005
  Lobster around the Gaspe Peninsula (LFAs 19, 20AB, 21AB) in 2004.
  
  
• Science Advisory Reports 2005/006
  Lobster in the Magdalen Islands (LFA 22) in 2004.
  
  

Stock Assessment Reports

• Stock Assessment Reports C3-12 (2002)
  Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Lobster (Lobster Fishing Areas 23, 24, 25, 26A and 26B)
  
  
• Stock Assessment Reports 2004/020
  Lobster of the Inshore Waters of Quebec in 2003.
  
  
• Stock Assessment Reports 2004/032
  Eastern Cape Breton Lobster (LFAs 27-30).
  
  
• Stock Assessment Reports 2004/033
  Eastern Shore Lobster (LFAs 31A, 31B, 32).
  
  
• Stock Assessment Reports 2004/038
  South Shore Nova Scotia Lobster (LFA 33).
  
  

For other documents, consult the site of the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat.

Publications

• Research Document 2004/048
  Stock and fishery status of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, for 2001 (Lobster Fishing Areas 23, 24, 25, 26A and 26B).
  
  
• Research Document 2004/054
  Stock status of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, in the Lobster Fishing Area 25.
  
  
• Research Document 2006/010
  Stock status and indictors for the lobster fishery in Lobster Fishing Area 34.
  
  
• Research Document 2006/057
  Impacts of Mobile Bottom Gears on Seafloor Habitats, Species, and Communities: A Review and Synthesis of Selected International Reviews.
  
  
• Research Document 2006/046
  Physical Environmental Conditions in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence during 2005.
  
  
• Research Document 2005/027
  Temperature Conditions in Lobster Fishing Area 34 on the Scotian Shelf and Eastern Gulf of Maine: 1999-2004.
  
  
• Research Document 2004/021
  Eastern Cape Breton Lobster (LFAs 27-30): Stock status and biological effects of the increase in minimum legal size.
  
  
• Research Document 2004/037
  Lobster Stock Monitoring by the Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen's Association.
  
  
• Research Document 2004/038
  Effects of Recent Management Changes and Stock Status in Lobster Fishing Areas 31 and 32.
  
  
• Research Document 2004/062
  Lobster stock status on the Quebec North Shore (LFAs 15, 16 and 18) in 2003.
  
  
• Research Document 2004/071
  Stock indicators for LFA 33 with respect to management changes implemented in 2000.

For other documents, consult the site of the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat.