[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21933-21934]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING EDWARD UEBER

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                          HON. LYNN C. WOOLSEY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, October 6, 2004

  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Edward Ueber, a 
dedicated public servant and a passionate defender of our nation's 
marine resources. He is a man with a wide range of marine experiences, 
an inquiring mind, and a can-do attitude--all attributes that he has 
brought to bear in a 28-year career working first for the National 
Marine Fisheries Service and then the National Marine Sanctuary 
Program, where until recently he has served as the longtime manager of 
the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine 
Sanctuaries.
  Ed Ueber has sea salt in his veins. As a teenager in the fifties he 
was a fisherman and seafood merchant. In the next twenty-five years he 
navigated and piloted Navy submarines and Merchant Marine ships, worked 
at a shipyard, earned an advanced degree in fisheries resource 
economics and management, consulted for the government of Brazil on 
fisheries management and was a University of Connecticut researcher.
  With all of this nautical background, the National Marine Fisheries 
Service was lucky to have him come aboard as a fisheries economist in 
1976. During that period, Ed published a number of peer review papers 
on a wide range of fisheries and resource issues.
  By the late '80s Ed Ueber had amassed a wealth of experiences that 
for most people would have been a career in itself. But in 1990, when 
Ed was appointed the Manager of the Gulf of the Farallones National 
Marine Sanctuary and a year later Manager of the brand new Cordell Bank 
National Marine Sanctuary, he began to take on legendary status. Ed 
Ueber, the resources economist, rolled up his sleeves and once again 
became a sailor, making the rounds of the sometimes-rough waters of the 
two Sanctuaries, and navigating the political shoals onshore.
  Ed successfully fought a plan to indirectly dump wastewater into the 
Gulf of the Farallones; dealt with several oil spills, and a forgotten 
radioactive dumpsite at sea. At the same time, he brought the Sanctuary 
program to the public by creating the first Marine Sanctuary Beach 
Watch program, the SEALS harbor seal protection and education program, 
the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association and opening three visitor 
centers.
  Ed also upheld the Sanctuary program's scientific mission with an 
intertidal monitoring program, a new ecosystem oceanographic evaluating 
system, and deep-sea studies.

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  He was and is immensely knowledgeable, with a disarming and impish 
sense of humor. And with those who would threaten the Sanctuary's 
resource he is a skillfull negotiator and tough when he has to be. He 
is a communicator who can speak the language of researchers, fishermen, 
environmentalists, beach lovers--and even bureaucrats if he really 
tries.
  Ed Ueber's love of the ocean and its creatures manifests itself in 
fierce protectiveness. He personifies the ideals of the National Marine 
Sanctuary Program.
  This week as we honor the 15th Anniversary of the Cordell Bank 
National Marine Sanctuary, one of the most biologically productive 
underwater areas on the planet, I also honor Ed Ueber, its first 
manager, a man to match the bounteous and awe-inspiring resource he has 
protected for so many years.

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