DENMARK'S latest pelagic catcher Stromegg has been completed by Karstensens Skibsvaerft in Skagen and delivered to owner Skagerak Fiskeeksport in Hirtshals.

Stromegg has been built on a 62.60 metre long hull constructed at the Riga Shipyard in Latvia and she achieved 16.50 knots on sea trials carried out before her delivery on November 3, 2007.

The new purser-trawler is of much the same design as Stromfjord, which Karstensens delivered to the company in 2000. This company's fleet is completed by Stromnes, a 61 metre purse seiner-trawler bought from Norway which had been built at Fitjar in 2000 as Senior.

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