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The 31-metre Pacific Explorer, about to end its days as the biggest fishing vessel operating out of Napier. Photo / Warren Buckland. The biggest trawler fishing ...

It was the biggest fishing vessel operating out of Napier apart from the three years of the Glomfjord, a 34m stern trawler built in 1992 and brought from Denmark to New Zealand in 2017 in a joint venture between Hawke’s Bay Seafoods and Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Inc. A 31-metre stern trawler, the Pacific Explorer was built in Germany in 1983, and brought from Peru to Hawke’s Bay by fisherman Chris Robinson’s Pacific Trawling in 2005. The sale was confirmed to Hawke’s Bay Today by Napier businessman Rodney Green, a part-owner for about five years.