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FISH EXPO '33
Over 550 companies will have exhibits at Fish Expo from Octo- ber 26-29, 1983, at The Seattle
Center in Seattle, Wash. This will make for the largest Fish Expo ever, topping the 535 companies that exhibited when the show was last in Seattle in 1981. Fish Expo alternates annually between Bos- ton, Mass., and Seattle. "After a drop in exhibitors in 1982, sales have come back strong for this year's show," said Jon
Stamell, general manager of Na- tional Fisherman Expositions, Inc., which runs the show with Na- tional Fisherman Magazine's sponsorship. "Suppliers have be- gun to speak with optimism. It seems that the economic recovery is beginning to find its way to the commercial fishing industry," Mr.
Stamell said.
Fish Expo has become an out- standing educational opportunity for fishermen, processors and in- dustry suppliers, and the 1983 program is also the largest ever.
Thirty-one seminars will take place at the Mercer Forum adjacent to the Exhibition Hall, the show's second largest exhibit area. The pi. a*- / i 14 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
