Huge congratulations to Grace Walls for getting the first publication from her PhD done. And past students Rachel Webber, Laura Brady, and Michelle Hodgson and many others members of the lobster team as well as all the harvesters who helped with boat time for the project all get a share in the credit.

Published in Fisheries Management and Ecology, this is the first of several planned publications from our lobster bait project. Grace shows that Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) is a viable method to assess baits for lobster fishery. This is important, because it provides a method for refining alternative bait development in advance of testing new baits in the fishery. Our hope is this will contribute to the fishery shifting towards a more sustainable approach to bait use.

One of our local community TV stations interviewed Russell about the work and the larger issue of sustainable bait in the lobster fishery.

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Walls, L.G., Webber, R., Brady, L., Hodgson, M., McGaw, I.J., and Wyeth, R.C. 2025. Assessment of a baited remote underwater video method to evaluate American Lobster (Homarus americanus) response to baits in nature. Fisheries Management and Ecology. doi:10.1111/fme.70026.