TREVOR TAYLOR
Minister of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development
Minister responsible for the
Rural Secretariat
Member for The Straits & White Bay North
 Raised in Gunners Cove, Trevor Taylor graduated from Truman Eddison Memorial in Gunners Cove in 1984 and attended Memorial
University and the Marine Institute. He has been extensively
involved in the fishery at several levels. He worked as a
fishermen harvesting cod until the moratorium in 1992. He was
skipper for three years of a 55-foot shrimp / crab boat
Cull’s Eclipse. He is a past executive board member of the
Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ Union and worked for six years as
a staff member of the union. He served two terms as a member of
the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. He taught
off-campus fisheries courses for the Marine Institute. He served
as a member of the Oxfam fisheries delegation to Nicaragua . He
served on the boards of the Canadian Centre for Fisheries
Innovation, the St. Anthony Basin Resources Inc. (SABRI), and
the White Bay North Rural Development Association. He was first
elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election in The Straits
& White Bay North on January 30, 2001 and subsequently served as
the Opposition critic for Fisheries and Aquaculture and for
Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs. Trevor served as both Minister
of Fisheries and Aquaculture and Minister of Transportation and
Works.
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