This annual event is one of the hottest tickets at Pacific Marine Expo. This year, you can join free online to hear commercial fishing and other maritime and seafood industry leaders discuss the year ahead for the Port of Seattle and beyond. (Breakfast not included.)

Register for the event, happening live at 8:30 a.m. PST/11:30 a.m. EST, via Zoom.

Speakers
• The State Response: Washington State Secretary of Commerce Lisa Brown
• The Industry Response:
- Port of Seattle Commission President Peter Steinbrueck
- Steve Metruck, Port of Seattle Executive Director
- Port of Tacoma Commission President John McCarthy
- John Wolfe, Northwest Seaport Alliance CEO

• The Pacific Northwest Economic Outlook: Jon Talton, The Seattle Times

Program Participants
• Sarah Scherer, Seattle Propeller Club President and Seattle Office of Economic Development
• Rich Berkowitz, The Transportation Institute
• Charlie Costanzo, American Waterways Operators
• Peter Schrappen, NMTA and Washington Maritime Federation
• Eugene Wasserman, North Seattle Industrial Association

Sponsors: Seattle Propeller Club and Port of Seattle

Presenting Partners: North Seattle Industrial Association, American Waterways Operators, Northwest Marine Trade Association, Transportation Institute, Seattle Marine Business Coalition and King County maritime businesses with National Fisherman and Pacific Marine Expo

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Jessica Hathaway is a Fisheries and Seafood Senior Consultant for Ocean Strategies and is a former editor of National Fisherman.

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