Fishery Bay Whaling Station
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| location = Sleaford, South Australia{{cite web |title=Search result for 'Fishery Bay, BAY' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Gazetteer' and 'SA Heritage Places' |url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=hybrid&x=135.69922&y=-34.91486&z=14&uids=19,105,95&pinx=135.686060&piny=-34.914240&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Fishery+Bay,+Bay |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher=South Australian government |accessdate=9 September 2018}}
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| owner = United Fishing Company of Adelaide
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Fishery Bay whaling station was a whaling station located in the Colony of South Australia on the coast of Fishery Bay, a subsidiary of the larger Sleaford Bay, on Eyre Peninsula about {{convert|32|km}} south-west of Port Lincoln. It operated in the 1830s and 1840s and helped to provide the colony with one of its first export commodities.
History
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A shore-based whaling station was operating at Fishery Bay by late 1837. In November the schooner Siren left Port Adelaide for Sleaford Bay “to take on a cargo of oil from the station there.”{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31749747 |title=THE WHALING SEASON |newspaper=South Australian Gazette And Colonial Register]|volume=I |issue=8 |location=South Australia |date=11 November 1837 |accessdate=9 September 2018 |page=1 (The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931)) |via=National Library of Australia}} By 1839 the station was under the control of the United Fishing Company of Adelaide, which was a partnership between the South Australian Company and Messsrs Hack and Company.{{cite book |last1=Parsons |first1=Ronald |title=Port Lincoln shipping |date=1981 |publisher=R.H. Parsons |location=Magill, South Australia |edition=First}}
The South Australian company sold out in 1841 and the Hack brothers then became sole owners. They in turn found themselves in financial difficulties in the depression of the early 1840s and were declared insolvent in 1843. Hagan and Hart purchased the station, as well as another owned by the Hack brothers at Rosetta Head. They operated the Fishery Bay station for three or four months before closing it down. No further whaling seems to have occurred at the location after 1843.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
Archaeological investigations in the area have identified the remains of buildings and artifacts associated with the whaling station.{{cite book |last1=Kostiglou |first1=Parry |last2=McCarthy |first2=Justin |title=Whaling and sealing sites in South Australia |date=1991 |publisher=Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology |location=Fremantle |pages=17–21}}
The site, which is located in the locality of Sleaford, was added the South Australian Heritage Register on 23 September 1982.{{cite web |title=Former Fishery Bay Whaling Station |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=16593 |website=South Australian Heritage Register |publisher=South Australian Government |accessdate=9 September 2018}} The land on which the former whaling station was located was previously declared as a historic reserve under the Aboriginal and Historic Relics Preservation Act 1965 on 31 August 1972.{{cite web |last1=Shard |first1=A.J. |title=ABORIGINAL AND HISTORIC RELICS PRESERVATION ACT, 1965: HUNDRED OF SLEAFORD—HISTORIC RESERVE DECLARED |url=http://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1972/44/1328.pdf |website=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=13 February 2019 |page=1328 |date=31 August 1972 |quote=Reserve described as "Section 21, hundred of Sleaford, county of Flinders, together with the adjoining 150 links reserve and portion of the 150 links reserve adjoining section 25, hundred of Sleaford, extending generally south-easterly and northerly for approximately 40 chains from the easternmost corner of the aforesaid section 21."}}