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Bristol Bay Harvester Hawks Gillnetter at Pacific Marine Expo
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Bristol Bay Harvester Hawks Gillnetter at Pacific Marine Expo

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, Arizona, whe...
PicoICE Made from Seawater Introduced to Alaska Fisheries
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PicoICE Made from Seawater Introduced to Alaska Fisheries

When the f/v Seabrooke begins fishing out of Akutan in the Aleutian Islands in January, plans are for the vessel to be equipped with the technology to turn seawater into tiny ice crystals that form a protective slurry around the Pacific cod catch. The Aberdeen, Wash. processor’s focus on improving the quality and value of its catch will be enhanced by PicoICE. These very small ice crystals produced from sea water, surround the fish, largely stopping any bacterial action to the flesh by getting the core temperature of the fish down to 31-32 degrees Fahrenheit before the fish goes into rigor mortis. “Our machines have worked all over the world,” Dan Strickland, the Alaska sales agent for Green Iceberg AS of Oslo, Norway, who was at the 2024 Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle Nov. 20-22...
Washington Gov. Inslee Slated to Give Keynote Address Pacific Marine Expo
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Washington Gov. Inslee Slated to Give Keynote Address Pacific Marine Expo

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee is scheduled to give a keynote address on the latest in technologies and services in the blue economy during the final day of Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle on Nov. 22. His scheduled presentation is part of the “State of the Blue Annual Gathering: Innovation Impact, and Investment in the Blue Economy” event, under a partnership between Pacific Marine Expo planners and Washington Maritime Blue, a regional maritime and blue economy innovation cluster. Inslee is slated to be among the early speakers at the Olympic Club Lounge in Lumen Field, with the full program running from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet with leadership of start-up companies and hear of programming that updates major initiatives such as sust...