USFA Inc.

Canada Cup 2010 hosted by the Sydney Metro Zone.

When: 13th & 14th Febuary 2010

Where:  Terrigal Haven (near the boat ramp), Terrigal, Central Coast, NSW.

Prizes for:

* Top 3 in Grades B, C, D,
* Top 2 in, Masters, Vets, Intermediates, ladies, Juniors and Sub Juniors
* Top 10
* Most meritorious fish
* Largest fish
* Rockhoppers
* Committee's choice
* 3 man teams
* Pairs
* Fish species: Goatfish, Red Mowie, Ludrick, Bream, Pig, and Red Rockie

The major prizes will be listed here before the event:

PRIZE LIST

$3000 in prizes
RA reel
RA gun bag
Masks + snorkels
Dive torches
Knives
Dive books
SPearfishing DVDs
and much more....

Cost for 2 days diving (Sat/Sun):

$50 a Senior
$25 a Junior

Cost for 1 days diving (Sat or Sun):

$30 a Senior
$10 a Junior

There will be no Fish auction on days 1 and 2.

Day 1
Sign on from 7:00am
Comp starts 9am and finished 2:15pm.

Day 2
Sign on from 7am
Comp starts at 8am and finishes at 2:15pm

All compeditors must be a UFSA member. If you are not a member you can sign up and pay your membership on the day.

All divers must:

* Use a red, orange or yellow float with dive flag “A”
* Carry a safety whistle, knife and a reflective mirror

Scoring is as per Sydney Metro Zone Scoresheet
Ineligible Species for Sydney Metropolitan Zone Competitions:
All eels (congers included )
All protected species
All sharks and rays
Hybrids of any type
Magpie Morwong
All Crustaceans
All species that do not meet NSW Fisheries size, length and bag limits.
Batfish
Banded Drummer
Bluefish
Cale Herring
Cale Rock
Catfish all
Crimson Banded Parrotfish
Damselfish
Estuary Perch
Flutefish all
Maori Wrasse
Old Wives
Orange spot Leatherjackets
Red Mullet
Ruxton
Sunfish
Please note that other fish may be removed for specific competitions, such as the Sydney Cup & Canada Cup (i.e. Wirrah Cod) depending on the organisers.
Other unlisted or fish not on the score sheet will be determined by the committee running the competition.
Silver drummer to weighed as one specie only.

Canada Cup presentation to follow the weigh in on day 2.

Day 2 coinsides with round two of the Sydney Alliman spearfishing competition, so be early to sign on.

Sydney Cup 2010,

Gunnamatta Bay 16th & 17th January 2010.

The Sydney Cup is the First USFA Major Comp for the year.

This year we saw just under 50 divers compete in almost perfect conditions.

The fish of the comp was a 3kg+ Bkue Barred parrot fish.

See attachments for results.

On Sunday 17 May 4 spearos from the Revesby Workers Spearfishing Club assisted the National Parks and other interested volunteers in cleaning up the Towra Point area.
While most people were at the State Titles I was able to coerce my son and 2 of his mates with an offer - that if they helped with the clean up I would take them out spearing for the same amount of time and show them a few old spearo tricks.
We were given the job of recovering anything that was in the water and deeper than your knee, like an old oyster boat, 44 gallon drums etc
The jobs were enjoyable and we made some new acquaintances with some linos who also believe there are better ways of fish conservation then being locked out.
Craig Shepherd organised the day which ran smoothly and fuss free, I would gladly donate more of my time to assisting Craig and the other National Park officers who have the same environmental concerns as most spearos.

The National Parks were so appreciated that we gave up our time and put in the effort to attend, that they donated 2 eskies as raffle prizes and guess who won one - YES me!

So after the clean up and a warm chicken sandwich washed down with a cold soft drink all donated by the National Parks, I took the boys out the front of Kurnell and it was BIG.
I couldn't anchor so I went boatie and shouted instructions to them. It must have worked as they all got a feed and the sawtails they picked up were huge.

I would encourage others to attend the next cleanup and enjoy the comradery.

Gary Crawford.

The USFA/AUF is to hold a re-union dinner to celebrate its 60th anniversary on Saturday 19th September commencing at 6pm. Revesby Workers Club, the venue for the highly successful 50th anniversary re-union has again been chosen to host this event .

Speech Transcript – Keynote Speaker
Bob McComb, Chairman, the Adventure and Safari Industry Association of NSW
USFA Event 7 May 2009
Sydney

6th - 12th April 2009

Please refer to http://www.spearfishingdownunder.com.au/pacific_coast/ for details.

Downloadable Competition Rules

USFA Spearfishing Competition Rules — PDF, DOC

USFA Spearfishing Competition Procedures & Minimum Standards — PDF, DOC

The USFA was one of three finalists in the award for Excellence in
Recreational Fishing Communication for the USFA Guide to Spearfishing in NSW
and the AUF one of three finalsts for Project of the Year with the Great
Australian Shark Count.

Attending from NSW were Darren Higgins, Adrian Wayne, Mick Rupnik and Mel
Brown with Adam Smith and Chad Lunow from Queensland and Matt Koopman from
Victoria.

For the size of our organization we can take great pride in the fact that
both the USFA and AUF were the winners of their respective categories.