State Heritage Place No 18820.

The station was established in 1840, the purpose being to catch southern right whales and export whale oil to England to support the new colony of South Australia. By 1851 the station was being managed by Mr Clark who had been at the Encounter Bay whaling station. He and his wife were living in a slab hut. In 2000 Flinders University students assisted with an archaeological investigation of a slab hut site at Fishery Beach.

One of Mr Clark's sons was Robert Beaumont Clark who later lived at Yankalilla and was responsible for planting Australia's first Avenue of Trees to honour soldiers enlisting to go to the Great War in 1915.

The catch was diminishing and by 1855 all work ceased. Fishery Beach had a new lease of life when the silver-lead Talisker mine began operation in 1862. Ore was transported from the mine by bullock wagon to Fishery Beach and was ferried out by lighter to ships offshore.