The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has announced new directors of licensing and fisheries and hatcheries.

They include Angela Dionne, director of licensing and registration, and Elizabeth Latti, director of fisheries and hatcheries. Both will be working from the main office in Augusta.

Dionne, of the central Maine area, has been employed by the department for over eight years, most recently as a management analyst and one of three supervisors within the Division of Licensing and Registration.

In 2017, she received the Employee of the Year Award for the division, and in 2019 she received the Governor’s Employee of the Year Award for the department, a testament to her work ethic and dedication to the department’s mission.

She has a strong vision for future operations of the licensing division including implementation of upgrades to current technology.

Elizabeth Latti of the Rangeley area has worked from the Strong Regional Office. She began her career with the department  in 2007 as a seasonal fisheries technician in the Strong area. She was later hired as the fisheries biology specialist, then regional fisheries resource biologist, before taking on her current position as the fisheries resource supervisor.

For the past four years, Latti has overseen the Rangeley Lakes Region and has been successful working with a variety of individuals, groups and partners to protect and promote the region’s unique fisheries, including large-scale research projects on Mooselookmeguntic Lake and Bald Mountain Pond.

As director of fisheries and hatcheries, she will oversee a division comprised of seven management regions, eight hatcheries, the fish health lab. She will also oversee budgeting, policy, operational procedures, management programs, hatchery operations, stocking programs, permitting, licensing programs, and more.

Her passion, expertise and skills will serve the department well and be a tremendous asset to Maine’s fisheries and those who enjoy them.