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The Atlantic Veterinary College's Lobster Science Centre is the only lobster research centre in the world that is part of a veterinary college. Here, specialized lobster scientists with veterinary backgrounds work to apply the basic principles of veterinary medicine to the lobster fishery. Their efforts to provide the science needed to protect and grow Canada's most valuable seafood product involves thousands of individuals from fishery organizations, producer groups, industry, government and academic institutions throughout Atlantic Canada and parts of the United States. In 2008, the landed value of lobster in Atlantic Canada was more than three-quarters of a billion dollars with over 9,000 people working as lobster fishers in the region.