Media Articles

Creek to Coast: The Haldane brothers and the beginning of tuna fishing in Port Lincoln 8th June 2019 Tuna fishing in Port Lincoln, where it all began. This is a story about three young men who had a dream — not a little dream, but a big dream — and being young and fearless, they made their […]

SA Parliament Hansard – Boating facilities levy 19th October 2017 Mr TRELOAR (Flinders) (12:55): I rise today to support the very excellent motion brought to us by the member for Chaffey: That this house— (a) acknowledges the importance of having safe and adequate boating facilities across South Australia for boat owners and fishers; (b) condemns

Port Lincoln Times: Society taking tuna to market 20th March 2017 The Tacoma Preservation Society is hoping to branch out with its tourism trips by offering Adelaide shoppers a taste of South Australian tuna. For the first time the society supplied an Adelaide supermarket with tuna caught during its February/March tuna poling trips. A three-day

Rowan Ramsay MP supports Tacoma Marina berth Port Lincoln Times, 22nd February 2017 A Fisherman’s Memorial Promenade and Passenger Terminal is being planned as part of a community marina facility for Lincoln Cove at Port Lincoln. The Tacoma Preservation Society (TPS) is making application to the Building Better Regions Fund under the Infrastructure Projects Stream

Pontoon space should be for all Port Lincoln Times, 17th January 2017 THE Port Lincoln City Council will ask the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure for a three month extension to the closing date of proposal requests, due on January 31, for the waterway next to the Marina Hotel. In December last year the department issued a request

Annual Taylor’s Island wool clip run by MVF Tacoma Taylor’s & Tacoma, 21st November 2016 MFV Tacoma: 84ft, launched 1951 at Pt Fairy, Victoria. A gracious wooden boat on it’s annual wool clip run. VIEW FULL GALLERY

Preserving Tacoma, a new life for a historic tuna boat Signals Quarterly, Sept/Oct/Nov 2016 Thousands of wooden fishing boats are slowly rotting in a quiet grave – a backyard, a muddy mangrove swamp or a lonely boatyard. One vessel saved from this fate by a group of volunteers is the MFV Tacoma, a South Australian

Tacoma program raises $15,000 Port Lincoln Times, 21st July 2016 MORE than $15,000 has been raised for local charities over the past three years through the Tacoma Preservation Society’s charity program. Secretary Leonie Sawyer said groups that had benefited from the program included Meals on Wheels, the National Servicemen’s Association, the Royal Flying Doctor Service,

Young Men and the Sea Great Ocean Quarterly, 2014 Stroll the boardwalk of any fishing hamlet and it’s hard not to reflect on past times: boats arriving with salty fishermen, rusty hooks and fish scales drying in the sun. Canvas drumming in the wind, bending to the heavy air of southern chill; wet, cold salt

Trip of success for Tacoma Port Lincoln Times, March 2012