Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association

Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association
Founded	1963
Focus	Lobsterfishing
Location	Scituate, Massachusetts;
Area served	Massachusetts
Members	1,800
Key people	Arthur "Sooky" Sawyer (president), Beth Casoni (executive director)
Website	http://www.lobstermen.com

The Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association (MLA) is an organization established in 1963 to maintain and protect the lobster fishing industry in Massachusetts. The mission of the MLA is to support "the interdependence of species conservation and the members’ collective economic interests" on the state and federal level.^[1] The organization has currently 1,800 members fishing out of fifty-two ports in Massachusetts and is based in Scituate.

References[]

^ "Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association". Retrieved 2016-03-11.

[1] "Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association". Retrieved 2016-03-11.

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National libraries	United States

show v t Genera of Nephropidae (clawed lobsters)
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea Order Decapoda Infraorder Astacidea Family Nephropidae
Acanthacaris (2 extant spp.) Dinochelus (1 extant sp.) Eunephrops Homarinus (1 extant sp.) Homarus (2 extant spp.) Hoploparia † Jagtia † Metanephrops (18 extant spp.) Nephropides (1 extant sp.) Nephrops (1 extant sp.) Nephropsis (15 extant spp.) † † † † Thaumastocheles (3 extant spp.) Thaumastochelopsis (2 extant spp.) Thymopides (2 extant spp.) Thymops (1 extant sp.) Thymopsis (1 extant sp.)