Commissioner and Senior Staff

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Patrick Keliher, Commissioner   Listen to an interview with the Commisioner on Maine Calling, recorded Feb. 21, 2017

• Charlene Beringer, Administrative Assistant to the Commissioner and senior staff

• Heidi Bray, Director, Program Analytics

• Deirdre Gilbert, Director, Bureau of Policy and Management

• Kohl Kanwit, Director, Bureau of Public Health and Aquaculture

• Sean Ledwin, Director, Bureau of Sea Run Fisheries and Habitat

• Meredith Mendelson, Deputy Commissioner (Federal policy, legislation, budgets and emerging issues)

• Jeff Nichols, Assistant to the Commissioner for Communications, and Seafood Marketing and Business Development 

• Col. Matthew Talbot, Chief of the Bureau of Marine Patrol

• Megan Ware, Director of External Affairs (New England Fisheries Management Council, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, interstate issues)

• Carl Wilson, Director, Bureau of Marine Science