{"id":29539,"date":"2026-01-21T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=29539"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:47:23","slug":"marylands-best-seafood-showcases-at-seafood-expo-north-america-seafood-processing-north-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2026\/01\/21\/marylands-best-seafood-showcases-at-seafood-expo-north-america-seafood-processing-north-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland\u2019s Best Seafood Showcases at Seafood Expo North America\/Seafood Processing North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/prod-archive.criticalmention.com\/campaign-attachments\/12985\/a27e7f49-a7b8-4270-96f1-b10579e391d7\/21958708-055a-4a6d-9843-2db02ab21075\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Maryland\u2019s Best Seafood Showcases at Seafood Expo North America\/Seafood Processing North America<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span><em>Stop by booth 1004 to sample Maryland\u2019s Seafood bounty<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD, (January 21, 2026)\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marylandsbest.maryland.gov\/\">Maryland\u2019s Best<\/a>, Maryland\u2019s state-wide marketing program connecting consumers to farmers and watermen, will be showcasing wild-caught Chesapeake Bay Blue Catfish, fresh Maryland oysters, Bay scallops, and more delectable seafood from the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean at North America\u2019s largest seafood event,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/north-america\/\">Seafood Expo North America\/Seafood Processing North America<\/a>. The Expo will take place from March 15-17, 2026, in Boston, MA, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>\u201cMaryland has showcased at the Seafood Expo North America for years, highlighting Maryland businesses that catch and process the Chesapeake and Atlantic Ocean\u2019s bounty,\u201d said Maryland Secretary of Agriculture Kevin Atticks. \u201cAs demonstrated in the Maryland booth at the 2026 show, attendees will be able to see how diverse Maryland\u2019s seafood offerings are, ranging from bay scallops to wild-caught Chesapeake blue catfish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Maryland\u2019s Best, located in booth #1004, will be showcasing Maryland products from five Maryland-based seafood companies, including Black Pearl Spice Company, Hollywood Oyster Company, Jimmy\u2019s Famous Seafood\/Culinary Craft Packaging, Fallen Pine Oyster, Baywater Seafood, and Blue Cat Fisheries. Stop by the booth to sample Maryland seafood products, an all-in-one mix for crab cakes, oyster salsa, Maryland blue crabs, oysters, and more. Maryland is known for its seafood, and we invite you to come see why for yourself at the Seafood Expo North America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span>###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; Maryland\u2019s Best Seafood Showcases at Seafood Expo North America\/Seafood Processing North America Stop by booth 1004 to sample Maryland\u2019s Seafood bounty &nbsp; ANNAPOLIS, MD, (January 21, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Maryland\u2019s Best, Maryland\u2019s state-wide marketing program connecting consumers to farmers and watermen, will be showcasing wild-caught Chesapeake Bay Blue Catfish, fresh Maryland oysters,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2026\/01\/21\/marylands-best-seafood-showcases-at-seafood-expo-north-america-seafood-processing-north-america-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"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":[403,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mda-newsroom","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\/29539","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\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29540,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539\/revisions\/29540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}