Lobster Institute

Lobster Institute Staff

Lobster Institute Board of Advisors

The Lobster Institute’s Board of Advisors is a volunteer group that provides advice and counsel to the Institute regarding its research and programming priorities; and supports the Institute in implementing its activities.  They come from a wide variety of lobster industry sectors and geographic regions, and help keep the Institute in touch and in tune with the needs of the lobster industry.

• Marianne LaCroix – Chair
  Director, Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative
• Geoff Irvine – Vice Chair, The Lobster Council of Canada
• Remy Rochette – Secretary – University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Biological Sciences
• William Anderson – Maine lobsterman – Trescott
• Curt Brown – Ready Seafood Chief Biologist, Maine
• Beth Casoni – President/Executive Director, Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association
• Sheila Dassatt – Executive Director, Downeast Lobstermen’s Association
• Jim Dow – Treasurer, Maine Lobstermen’s Association
• Melanie Giffin – PEI Fishermen’s Association Marine Biologist
• Heidi Henniger – Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen’s Association
• Jason Joyce – Lobsterman, Swans Island, Maine
• Luc LeBlanc – Maritime Fishermen’s Union Representative
• Bart Mansi – Guilford Lobster Pound, Connecticut
• Jack Merrill – V.P. Maine Lobstermen’s Association
• Virginia “Ginny” Olsen, Maine Lobstering Union, Local 207 
• Tracy L. Pugh, Ph.D., Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
• Kathleen Reardon, Maine Department of Marine Resources Lobster Scientist
• Dana Rice – Downeast Lobstermen’s Assn., Lobster Dealer
• Arthur “Sookey” Sawyer, Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association
• Melanie Sonnenberg – Eastern Fishermen’s Federation
• Joshua Stoll – UMaine Faculty in Marine Sciences
• Annie Tselikis – Maine Lobster Dealers Association Executive Director