{"id":23771,"date":"2019-10-29T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=23771"},"modified":"2019-10-28T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:38:00","slug":"department-seeks-exhibitors-for-2020-seafood-expo-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/10\/29\/department-seeks-exhibitors-for-2020-seafood-expo-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Seeks Exhibitors for 2020 Seafood Expo North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23772\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/national-seafood-expo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?fit=2449%2C1632&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2449,1632\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"National Seafood Expo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?fit=760%2C506&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23772 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo-1024x682.jpg?resize=760%2C506\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?w=1520 1520w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/National-Seafood-Expo.jpg?w=2280 2280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/strong>\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s Seafood Marketing Program is reserving booth space at Seafood Expo North America in Boston, March 15-17, 2020, and is seeking six local businesses to attend and showcase the best of Maryland\u2019s seafood industry. This expo is the largest seafood tradeshow in the United States, and will give exhibitors access to distributors, wholesalers, retailers, and food service representatives from around the world. Last year\u2019s expo drew a crowd of over 22,200 people.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in attending should contact the department\u2019s Seafood Marketing Director Stone Slade at <a href=\"mailto:stone.slade@maryland.gov\">stone.slade@maryland.gov<\/a> for an application. Selection is determined on a first-come, first-served basis and those chosen to participate by the Seafood Marketing Advisory Commission will receive a discounted exhibitor rate between $1,250 and $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Seafood Expo North America, visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MdAgDept\">@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture\u2019s Seafood Marketing Program is reserving booth space at Seafood Expo North America in Boston, March 15-17, 2020, and is seeking six local businesses to attend and showcase the best of Maryland\u2019s seafood industry. This expo is the largest seafood tradeshow in the United States, and will give<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/10\/29\/department-seeks-exhibitors-for-2020-seafood-expo-north-america\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23775,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771\/revisions\/23775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}