 Whyalla Steel City Sportfishing Club By-Laws
BY-LAWS
of the
STEEL CITY
SPORTFISHING CLUB
(as amended May 2011)
1) FISHING YEAR
The
fishing year of the Club will be from the 1st June to the 31st May inclusive.
2) OUTINGS
a) The Club’s Committee shall set
the date of all Club fishing competitions.
b) There shall be a maximum of
four open outings per year, at the discretion of the Committee of the time.
c) An open outing shall only be
fished from boats launched as far south as Cowell and Port Broughton in the
Spencer Gulf Fishing outside this area shall only be done as a group on a club
outing. On open outings, land based
anglers may fish anywhere in SA provided weigh-in times are
not contravened.
d) The Committee of the time,
shall designate the areas to be fished, except in the case of 2 b and 2 c
above. The Committee shall decide the starting, finishing and weigh-in times of
2a, 2b and 2c.
e) Event rescheduling.
Changing an event day due to rough weather: members meeting at the
ramp or venue ready for boating outings may by majority vote, vote to transfer
the event to the same day the next week. If they vote to cancel the event in
the second week, the event is cancelled.
3) FISHING RULES
a) The Club will abide by the rules
of the ANSA handbook that is current at the time, plus any amendments that may
be issued.
b) The club members shall also
abide by Commonwealth and State Fisheries laws and regulations.
c) Starting time, unless otherwise
agreed by the Committee and notified to members, is the time to put lines in
the water.
4) CLUB RECORDS
a) Club records shall be kept in
all ANSA classes and divisions.
b) To be eligible for a Club
junior record the fish must be worth at least 75 points.
c) To be eligible for a Club
senior record the fish must be worth at least 100 points.
5) WEIGHING OF FISH
a) On all club competitions, fish
must be either weighed in by the Weighmaster or the delegate, or weighed in on certified scales or on scales
approved or tested annually against
certified scales where two or more persons are present.
b) All competition entrants shall
be at the designated weigh-in area by the allocated time. There will be a 15
minute leeway on the time (i.e. 3.30 + 15 mins = 3.45)
c) Fish may be accepted after this
time at the discretion of the Weighmaster.
d) If the need arises, the
Committee will appoint an acting Weighmaster for specified weigh-ins.
e) All fish weighed for seniors must weigh enough to score ten points to be weighed
in.
f) In addition to ANSA eligible
species, garfish and striped perch may be weighed in for juniors only, garfish
will have a fighting factor of 0.6, and striped perch will have a fighting
factor of 1.0.
g) Fish to be weighed in as a
species not just family group or name: i.e. ANSA handbook states “whiting all”:
Club members may weigh in, on the same competition, a King George whiting and a
silver whiting, and 4 or more different species of leather jacket.
h) Only one fish per species per
competition may be weighed in for Club points.
i) All ANSA listed sharks are put
into their own section and carry their own trophy.
j) All rays are not eligible for
club points, but may be weighed for any ANSA category.
k) Anyone weighing in, or trying
to weigh-in undersize fish on a Club competition will lose their points for
that competition. If they try to weigh-in undersize fish on another Club competition,
they will lose their points for that fishing year: they will also receive a
written warning from the Club committee on their behaviour. If after this they
try, yet again, to weigh-in undersize fish they will automatically be suspended
from the Club.
6) ON SHORE FISHING
On shore fishing to start at 4 am on competition days unless
otherwise specified by the Committee. Also,
finishing times will be the same as off shore fishing unless otherwise
specified by the committee. If there is any doubt, 4pm is the finish time for
landbased anglers for a fish day competition that is not otherwise notified to members or is not a designated 24
hour competition.
7) RESTRICTED AREAS
All fish caught in restricted areas that
are not available to the general public will be ineligible
for Club points. Restricted areas at
present include:-
· Santos
· One Steel inner harbour
· within 20 metres of any One
Steel wharf or loading facility or
any
· Trans-shipping points within the Upper Spencer Gulf
· any other “no take” zones in
Marine Parks declared under the
proposed D.E.H Marine Parks legislation.
Note: 1. Loading facility includes any barges tied
up at the iron ore jetty in which case
the 20 metres is extended.
2. Trans-shipping points are the exclusion zones at various points in
the middle of
Spencer Gulf where unloading of barges
takes place. These points are prescribed on
the latest charts and
restrictions apply when ships are in the area.
8) FISH IDENTIFICATION
The Club’s official book of species identification shall be “The Sea
Fishes of South Australia” by authors
Barry Hutchins and Roger Swainson.
9) MEMBERSHIP DEFINITION
a) Family membership applies to
two (2) adults living in a family relationship, and includes children less than
sixteen (16) years of age at the start of the Club’s financial year. Family membership entitles both adults to
vote.
b) Single adult membership applies
to a single person sixteen years or over at the start of the Club’s financial
year.
c) Junior membership applies to
persons under the age of 16 years at the start of the Club’s financial year,
and they must join with at least one guardian/care provider who must be a
member of the Club. Supervision of juniors at all Club
functions is the total responsibility of their family or legal guardian or
guardian/care providers.
d) Social non-competition
membership applies to persons 16 years and over: they cannot participate for
points in fishing club competitions and, based on this membership, are not
eligible for ANSA records. Social Members are eligible to win fun prizes e.g.
Social Members may win fun fishing prizes at social, commercially sponsored, or
away outings but they are not eligible for point scoring for any club fishing
events or trophies or records or any ANSA categories.
10) FISHING ZONES
a) For ‘open outing’ boats must be
launched at or north of Port Broughton – Cowell in the
Spencer
Gulf and landbased fishers must fish within South Australian
waters.
b) The ‘Silt Ground’ refers to waters
north of a line from the western end of the
SANTOS floating berth to the Whyalla marina
entrance.
c) The ‘Foreshore’ means any areas
west of the line from the old Tyre Reef (called Merek’s Reef) to the end of the
dolphin at the ore jetty; and north of the line from the old Tyre Reef (Merek’s
reef) to the most southerly edge of the sewerage pond at Eight Mile Creek,
excluding any aquatic reserves and sanctuaries. The Foreshore includes the area
1km around the old Tyre Reef.
NOTES:
1. On open days away, members remaining in Whyalla may fish the same
hours, launching at
or north of Pt Broughton
to Cowell, to score points for the annual competitions and this
includes boats and land-based fishers (refer
to new fishing program rules).
2. Areas where not all members can fish are not deemed outing areas
for competition points,
but can include record catches for club and
ANSA.
3. The Club or Committee may appoint a fishing co-ordinator for each
event if there is a need
for
such a person to advise on weigh-ins, times, prizes, measuring or other
procedures
before an event. | 
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