Abstract. The notion of weakly Laskerian modules was introduced recently by the authors. Let R be a commutative Noetherian ring with identity, a an ideal of R, and M a weakly Laskerian module. It is shown that if a is principal, then the set of associated primes of the local cohomology module H i a (M ) is finite for all i ≥ 0. We also prove that when R is local, then Ass R (H