Article Category: PME Recap

By Margaret Bauman Pacific Marine Expo 2024 at Lumen Field Events Center Seattle in Seattle served up a plethora of offerings Nov. 20-22—health tips for seafood harvesters and updates on seafood trade economics and the blue economy. There was a little something for everyone networking their way through the event. The annual expo attracts participants from Florida to British Columbia and much of the Pacific Northwest, for myriad reasons, from wanting to sell a vintage commercial fishing boat to learning about new technology, checking out new industry equipment and simply going from booth to booth and picking up swag. Networking at Pacific Marine Expo proved to be a good investment this year for the Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association of St. Paul Island, in the Pribilofs, Preside...

Veteran Bristol Bay salmon harvester Leslie Stambaugh was on the move at the 2024 Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle, eager to talk with anyone willing to listen about the 32-foot drift gillnetter he has for sale. Stambaugh kept a steady pace from Nov. 20-22, through the vast open spaces at the Lumen Field Event Center filled with some 380 trade show booths, attracting attention from many folks manning and visiting the booths. Pacific Marine Expo, billed as the largest annual gathering of the commercial maritime industry on the West Coast, attracts several thousand individuals, businesses, government agencies and non-profits with links to maritime and commercial fisheries. “My wife just wants me to quit fishing; she wants me home,” said Stambaugh, 70, of Green Valley, Ariz., where there a...

Pacific Marine Expo, the largest commercial marine trade show on the West Coast serving commercial mariners, returned to Seattle in November. The event, held Nov. 17-19, attracted thousands of attendees from Alaska to California and beyond. In addition to commercial fishermen, attendees included vessel owner/operators, engineers, architects, seafood processors, port officials, harbor engineers, marine surveyors and others involved in the maritime industry. In addition to hundreds of exhibitor booths, the event featured panel discussions on various topics. The expo offers a variety of informative education sessions covering such topics as marine safety, business management, regulatory issues, technical advancements and more. This year’s event featured 11 panel discussions, including “A...