Hagen Stehr

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Hagen Stehr (* 1941 in Salzgitter ) is a German-Australian tuna farmer and entrepreneur.

Live and act

Hagen Stehr left Salzgitter at the age of 17, went to the ship boys' school in Elsfleth , worked on a freighter and fought in the French Foreign Legion in the Algerian War . There he deserted , went to sea again and came to Port Lincoln in the Australian state of South Australia in 1960 . There he settled down and from 1961 built up the "Clean Seas" fishing fleet, which today belongs to the "Stehr Group".

From the 1990s he pursued the idea of countering the threatening extinction of bluefin tuna through breeding. In a pilot project on land with fisheries experts and scientists from the University of Adelaide , he designed an environment in which the values ​​of water temperature, current and salinity required by the tuna are simulated. This made him the first person to spawn tuna in captivity .

Tuna farming in captivity was recognized by Time magazine in 2009 as the second most important invention in the world (after a new NASA rocket).

His son Marcus Stehr was General Manager of the Clean Seas company.

literature

  • Matt Rigney: In Pursuit of Giants: One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish. Viking, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-670-02335-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt Rigney: In Pursuit of Giants: One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish. Viking, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-670-02335-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Martin Weber: When the research object dies out. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . 21st May 2013
  3. ↑ Hagen Stehr's Clean seas blufin tuna breeding program wins award on news.com.au, November 18, 2009 ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Clean Seas - Fishing for Investors on lib.uts.edu.au
  5. ↑ Stehrs no longer steering Clean Seas on adelaidenow.com.au, March 23, 2012, accessed on June 7, 2019 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Stehr, Hagen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian tuna farmer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter