an Olympic weightlifting champion; German-
born Hagen Stehr, Sam Sarin and Mario Valcic.
These 'Godfathers' of the Port Lincoln fishery
still gather at a local café some sixty years later
to enjoy their friendship and heritage. They are
affectionately known as 'The Cappuccino Club'
and are said, collectively, to be worth more
than a billion dollars.
Times have changed dramatically since the
hectic heyday of tuna poling and seine netting.
An almost catastrophic fall in the population
of the enigmatic southern bluefin tuna in the
1980s saw the fishing method completely
revised in a self-motivated quest to protect
stocks by the tuna barons. No longer do they
primarily fish for wild fish stocks. Instead, they
run nets around juvenile schools and drag them
back sometimes hundreds of nautical miles,
to specially developed floating pens in Port
Lincoln’s beautiful Boston Bay. It's an enormous
industry utilising a far more sustainable method
and employs a large portion of Port Lincoln’s
population.Southern bluefin tuna is caught through sustainable means"port lincoln is a tease for any camper who happens
to have a tinge of salt water in their veins"
Axel Stenross Maritime Museum