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The Bangkok teacher who saved the Lukin tuna empire

The Bangkok teacher who saved the Lukin tuna empire

When pioneering fisherman Dinko Lukin died in 2011, nobody thought his wife – 32 years his junior – could save the business he had left drowning in debt.

Australia’s tuna queen, Lukina Lukin. Robert Lang

The history of Port Lincoln’s fabled tuna industry runs rich with the tales of men who rose from the ashes of post-war Europe to find their fortunes in the savage waters of the Southern Ocean.

The late Sam Sarin arrived from Croatia in the 1950s with nothing. He worked as a fruit picker and a cane cutter before being lured to the seas. By 2003, his fortune was reckoned to be in the vicinity of $330 million.

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