New England District - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont
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The New England District Office of Law Enforcement is located in Chelsea, Mass. The Resident Agent in Charge (RAC) is responsible for the supervision of Special Agents and Wildlife Inspectors stationed across the six-state New England region. The office is comprised of the RAC, Law Enforcement Support Assistants, Special Agents, Wildlife Inspectors and a Wildlife Inspection Assistant. The office is near downtown Boston where other federal law enforcement agencies have located their Special Agent in Charge Offices for New England.
Chelsea is located immediately north of Boston, in close proximity to Logan International Airport, where most of the Wildlife Inspector’s efforts are focused. The Port of Boston has been designated by the Service as one of the U.S. ports where wildlife and wildlife products can be legally imported. Wildlife Inspectors work closely with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to interdict smuggling and deter the illicit international wildlife trade. Inspectors also provide assistance to CBP officers stationed at the many land border ports located in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Additional partner law enforcement agencies include the Service’s Office of Refuge Law Enforcement, the Massachusetts Environmental Police, NOAA – Office of Law Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Park Service Rangers and the Wildlife Enforcement Division of Environment Canada.
Special Agents assigned to the Chelsea Office provide primary Service law enforcement response to Metropolitan Greater Boston, northeastern and central Massachusetts. Special Agents investigate wildlife smuggling cases in close coordination with Service Wildlife Inspectors at the Port of Boston. Agents also routinely conduct joint enforcement activities with officers from the Massachusetts Environmental Police including investigations into the illicit commercialization of native wildlife, the illegal killing of hawks, owls, bald eagles, and the enforcement of waterfowl hunting regulations.
Several high profile federal endangered, threatened and trust species, whose survivability is greatly dependent on the ability to coexist in close proximity to a heavily populated area utilize this region for breeding habitat. These species include piping plover (pdf - 226KB), roseate terns, bald eagles, ospreys and a large variety of colonial nesting shore birds. Approximately half of the entire Atlantic Coast’s piping plover population utilizes many of Massachusetts' and Rhode Islands' flat, sandy beaches as nesting habitat. These same beach areas are also very popular with the thousands of local residents and tourists who flock to these shorelines for their summer recreation.
For further information or to report a violation, contact the Chelsea, Mass., Office of Law Enforcement by phone or email.
| News in the New England District | Resident Agent in Charge |
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David SykesU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceOffice of Law Enforcement 70 Everett Avenue, Suite 315 Chelsea, MA 02150-2363 Phone: 617-889-6616 Fax: 617-889-1980 |
This office oversees the following Field Offices:
| Connecticut | Maine | New Hampshire | Rhode Island | Vermont |
| Tolland, Conn. | East Orland, Maine | Concord, N.H. | Charlestown, R.I. | Essex Junction, Vt. |
| Calais, Maine 103 Headquarters Road Baring, ME 04694 Phone: 207-454-0242 Fax: 207-454-2550 |
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Last updated:
February 13, 2013
