[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 164 (Wednesday, November 16, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1491-E1492]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF GEORGE S. LOCKWOOD

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 16, 2016

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the accomplishments 
of a remarkable man. I have had the great pleasure to have known and 
worked with George S. Lockwood for over 40 years. He is a boundless 
innovator, an expansive dreamer, and a relentless task master. I have 
no doubt that he is one of those remarkable human beings whose life's 
work in aquaculture will continue to pay dividends for humanity long 
into the future.
   George originally trained as an engineer. He earned a BS in Civil 
Engineering from Northwestern University followed by an MBA from 
Harvard University. He began his career with Perini, Inc., a large 
global heavy construction company where he served in various 
engineering and executive management positions.

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He next joined Los Angeles based Global Marine where he managed special 
projects for the firm's offshore drilling, marine engineering, and 
construction.
   George then left the corporate world to begin his second career as 
an aquaculture innovator. He founded Monterey Kelp Corporation in 
California, a marine plant harvesting and processing company that he 
later sold to a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical giant Merck. In 1972, 
he established Monterey Abalone Farms to develop commercial 
technologies for growing abalone and other seafood. Then in 1984, Mr. 
Lockwood founded Ocean Farms of Hawaii (OFH) in Kona, Hawaii, to grow 
salmon, oysters, abalone, sea urchins and marine plants on a commercial 
scale using cold pure seawater pumped from the deep ocean into ponds 
and tanks onshore. He recently founded a new company, Ocean Farms of 
The Bahamas, which he hopes will lead an expansion of aquaculture in 
the Caribbean.
   All along, George used his aquaculture experience to help shape 
public policy. In 1980, he worked with Congress to help craft the 
National Aquaculture Act. He then helped me in the California 
Legislature with drafting the California Aquaculture Act of 1982. This 
legislation modernized the regulation of aquaculture in California and 
served as a model for other states. George also served in numerous 
industry leadership roles, including: past president and multi-year 
director of the World Aquaculture Society; a founder and past president 
of the California Aquaculture Association--where I first met George; 
chairman of the Aquaculture Committee of the California Farm Bureau 
Federation; and a founding member of the U.S. Aquaculture Council.
   Since 2000, George has been involved in official and unofficial 
capacities advising USDA's National Organic Standards Board regarding 
the creation of organic certification standards for aquaculture. Since 
2005, he has served as Chair of the Aquaculture Working Group of the 
USDA National Organic Program that has contributed to the development 
of proposed standards for farmed fish and shellfish currently working 
their way through the federal rulemaking process.
   Mr. Speaker, I know that I speak for the whole House in applauding 
George Lockwood's accomplishments. The world is a better place because 
of his efforts. We wish him, his wife, the Rev. Canon Marcia Lockwood, 
their four grown children and two grandchildren all the success in the 
world.

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