Taylor To Be Appointed Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Alternate Commissioner (U.S. Section)
The President intends to appoint William W. Taylor, Associate Director of Michigan Sea Grant College Program, to be the Alternate Commissioner of the United States Section of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission was established by the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries between Canada and the United States in 1955. The Commission develops coordinated programs of fisheries research on the Great Lakes.

Taylor is Professor and Chair of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University (MSU). He is also Chair of the Board of Directors for the North Central Regional Aquaculture Center and is a past-president of the American Fisheries Society.

Taylor has considerable experience working on fisheries issues in a diversity of aquatic ecosystems, including rivers, lakes and the Great Lakes. His research is often closely associated with management agencies and focuses on fisheries ecology, population dynamics, policy and management.

Taylor's current research focuses on the following: North American salmon management, examining how social, economic, political, legal, and ecological issues are effectively integrated into policies and cooperative management systems that promote sustainable systems; examining the factors influencing development, growth, and survival of walleye in western Lake Erie (in collaboration with Dan Hayes, PhD, MSU); and examining differential growth rates of fish populations in inland lakes.

Taylor has edited several books, including most recently:
Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management, by William W. Taylor and Jianguo Liu. Liu and Taylor (both of MSU) present 20 chapters that explore, across a range of landscapes, natural resource management on a broad scale.

Links
White House News Release about Fishery Commission appointment
Evolving Challenges in Great Lakes Fisheries Upwellings editorial by Bill Taylor