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.