William L. Robinson is the Regional Administrator of the U.S. NOAA Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) Pacific Islands Regional Office, based in Honolulu, Hawaii. He works closely with the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council to manage U.S. domestic fisheries based in Hawaii and the U.S. Territories, and is the lead NOAA official to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention and the South Pacific Tuna Treaty consultations. After beginning his career with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, he joined the NMFS in 1980 serving as Chief of Fisheries Management for NMFS Alaska Region and the Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries for the NOAA Fisheries Northwest Region in Seattle, Washington. His responsibilities have included administering federal fisheries management and endangered species programs in Alaska and the U.S. west coast, and representing NMFS on the Pacific Fishery Management Council, Pacific Salmon Commission and International Pacific Halibut Commission. He has also represented NMFS in a professional exchange with the Australian Fisheries Service where he helped design and implement an Individual Transferable Quota program in the Australian southern bluefin tuna fishery, the first such program in the country. He has worked closely with Native American Indian Tribes, the west coast and Alaska fishing industry and environmental groups to promote resource conservation and sustainable fisheries management.