Down Memory Lane…Tuna Giants put Fish Hoek Bay on the Map

Mention Brian Cohen’s name and anybody who fishes Tuna will probably know who he is. For he is the man that in the early 1970’s got, and has kept, the Africa IGFA (International Game Fish Association) record for the biggest Bluefin Tuna ever caught – all 1047 lb of it – with a rod and reel. He has since gone on to publish a book.

He was also a Springbok fisherman and winner of the State President’s award for sport, a well-known sports fisherman who took 18 months off work to pursue his passion, a commercial fisher, and later partnered with John Church, founder of Tuna Marine Foods (abalone) which became the biggest Tuna cannery in the Western Cape canning up to 2000 tons of Tuna annually.