"Port Lincoln is tuna," Sharon Humenick, current Tunarama president, said. "They noticed at the time that one of the criteria to actually get a job on the tuna boats was to be able to chuck tuna a ...

Tacoma launches industry. Mr Haldane said fishermen were catching tuna in small boats in the 1930s, and in 1944, CSIRO fisheries researcher Stanley Fowler saw the industry's potential as he flew ...

The most outspoken of the tuna kings, German-born Hagen Stehr, likes to boast that when he sits down for his Thursday get-together at a Port Lincoln cafe with his old mates Sam Sarin, Mario Valcic ...

It might not be swimming with great whites, which you can also do around these parts, but it certainly gets the adrenalin running in the 17C water when 60-odd yellowfin tuna from about 30-60kg are ...

SWIM with the tuna during a family holiday to Port Lincoln, the seafood hub of South Australia. It might not be swimming with great whites, which you can also do around these parts, but it ...

SWIM with the tuna during a family holiday to Port Lincoln, the seafood hub of South Australia. Grant Jones. 2 min read. ... his numerous vessels line the massive pier, ...

By the late 1980s, almost all of Port Lincoln’s tuna fishers were in receivership. There were dozens of foreign and domestic operators racing to catch every fish they could find.

AUTHORITIES have established a 300-metre exclusion zone around a tuna boat leaking fuel after it was struck by a container ship at Port Lincoln and sunk.

Port Lincoln tuna titan Hagen Stehr made his fortune on the sea. Port Lincoln tuna titan Hagen Stehr made his fortune on the sea. Read Today's Paper Tributes & Notices. Rewards. Subscribe for $4.

A GAPING jaw with dozens of tiny sharp teeth is fast heading in my direction, the mouth opening wider to snatch away a sliver of pilchard or my fingers whichever comes first.