NEW BEDFORD — As of Sunday, NOAA's Northeast Division will have a new special agent in charge, a belated replacement for Andrew Cohen, who retired amid scandals in the division's Office of Law Enforcement.
Eric Schwaab, director of the National Marine Fisheries Service, announced Tuesday that Logan Gregory, an 18-year member of the Office of Law Enforcement, will take the top job in the Northeast.
A native of St. Petersburg, Fla., Gregory has held several positions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since being commissioned as an enforcement officer in 1993, according to Schwaab.
He has been a special agent, first in the Florida Keys and later in Newport News, Va. He has been an assistant special agent in charge, supervising all enforcement operations in the Northeast Division's District 4, which extends from Delaware to the Virginia/North Carolina border.
For the past year, Gregory has worked at the Office of Law Enforcement's headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. His duties included overseeing the agency's Vessel Monitoring System.
"Under Logan's leadership, the Northeast Division will remain focused on compliance and improving its relationship with the regulated community," Schwaab said.
Local fishing consultant Jim Kendall was moved to remark in an email: "We are no longer known as the fishing industry. We are now 'the regulated community'! What's next? The great unwashed? Leave it to Eric and friends! This doesn't bode well."
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