An $r$-uniform hypergraph ($r$-graph) is linear if any two edges intersect at most one vertex. For a graph $F$, a hypergraph $H$ is Berge-$F$ if there is a bijection $φ:E(F)\rightarrow E(H)$ such that $e\subseteq φ(e)$ for all $e$ in $E(F)$. In this paper, a kind of stability result for Berge-$K_{3,t}$ linear $r$-graphs is established. Based on this stability result, an upper bound for the linear Turán number of Berge-$K_{3,t}$ is determined. For an $r$-graph $H$, let $\mathcal{A}(H)$ be the adjacency tensor of $H$. The spectral radius of $H$ is the spectral radius of the tensor $\mathcal{A}(H)$. Some bounds for the maximum spectral radius of connected Berge-$K_{3,t}$-free linear $r$-graphs are obtained.