According to Nordlysid, the 75-meter Skalaberg cost DKK 180 million (€24 million/$35 million) to build six years ago, and the offer from the Argentinean buyer was DKK 200 million (€27 million/$39 million).
The company sold its other whitefish trawler, Sundaberg, earlier this year, leaving it with no whitefish trawler, although Managing Director Hanus Hansen said another vessel will be acquired shortly, and possibly two.
Reality is the quotas they have in the Barents Sea can be fished more economically with a smaller, cheaper vessel, he was quoted as saying.
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