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2011–12 Deer Season Harvest Summary

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New Jersey deer hunters harvested 50,109 deer during the 2011–2012 season between September 10, 2011 and February 18, 2012. The harvest for this year’s deer season is 9.6 percent lower than the 55,404 deer taken in 2010. Harvest reductions were due in part to the addition of five zones to Antler Point Restrictions, a good mast crop in the southern portion of the state and an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease. The antlerless portion of the 2011 harvest was 31,533 deer, down 11 percent from 2010. The antlered portion of the 2011 harvest was 18,575 deer, down almost seven percent from 2010 .

2011–12 Deer Harvest by County and Season
County	Total	Fall Bow	Permit Bow	Six-day Firearm	Permit M/L	Permit Shotgun	Winter Bow	Youth Days
Atlantic	1,927	281	252	520	364	340	121	49
Bergen	100	45	23	2	8	9	11	2
Burlington	4,248	887	621	820	576	1,100	169	75
Camden	822	243	167	126	86	121	67	12
Cape May	282	45	67	34	67	17	36	16
Cumberland	2,212	501	339	343	419	446	112	52
Essex	152	63	31	1	16	2	39
Gloucester	2,282	591	424	242	317	572	93	43
Hunterdon	8,021	2,619	1,131	1,091	1,074	2,005	5	96
Mercer	2,046	457	220	241	130	575	397	26
Middlesex	1,201	358	178	106	80	355	111	13
Monmouth	3,979	1,400	890	374	282	934	63	36
Morris	3,939	1,524	726	395	278	650	317	49
Ocean	2,146	444	319	409	228	299	415	32
Passaic	578	127	102	74	130	10	112	23
Salem	2,701	644	471	254	612	627	26	67
Somerset	3,369	1,353	623	264	249	760	97	23
Sussex	5,055	1,374	770	900	984	663	279	85
Union	270	4	1	1	—	90	174	—
Warren	4,652	1,267	651	820	609	1,235	2	68
Unknown	127	—	1	3	—	5	118	—
Totals	50,109	14,227	8,007	7,020	6,509	10,815	2,764	767

The 2011–12 Deer Harvest per Square Mile of Deer Range
Deer Mgt. Zone	Deer range (sq. mi.)	Antlered Buck Harvest (per sq. mi.)	Total Deer Harvest (per sq. mi.)
1	75	3.6	6.0
2	149	5.2	14.5
3	153	2.2	4.3
4	71	4.3	7.5
5	215	5.9	14.8
6	176	2.9	7.0
7	103	7.0	19.1
8	203	7.1	20.7
9	52	5.7	18.6
10	110	9.4	24.4
11	68	9.0	26.7
12	152	6.9	21.9
13	109	3.6	15.7
14	165	4.4	11.6
15	86	5.0	15.6
16	91	4.8	12.2
17	90	4.7	12.7
18	70	3.2	4.9
19	159	4.3	10.8
21	192	1.5	2.2
22	34	2.2	4.3
23	178	1.8	2.5
24	169	1.0	1.4
25	164	3.0	8.5
26	195	2.7	4.1
27	103	2.8	9.7
28	125	2.5	8.7
29	64	4.4	15.7
30	43	1.8	6.7
31	40	1.1	6.4
34	97	1.3	3.5
35	171	3.0	9.7
36	124	2.3	7.7
37	20	4.8	12.9
38	12	1.8	3.6
39	15	3.3	8.3
40	1	2.0	33.0
41	39	6.1	20.2
42	90	1.7	4.4
43	27	3.6	4.8
45	65	3.0	4.2
46	79	2.0	2.9
47	54	1.1	5.2
48	86	4.5	12.9
49	65	2.8	10.1
50	137	4.5	13.6
51	162	1.5	3.6
53	8	1.1	4.4
54	10	4.0	6.2
55	6	5.2	11.8
56	1	3.0	35.0
57	1	4.0	17.0
58	3	1.3	10.7
61	5	1.2	4.0
63	21	3.2	8.5
64	3	5.0	15.0
65	17	5.9	9.9
66	3	4.0	10.0
67	15	0.7	5.3
68	17	2.5	4.2
70	1	2.0	4.0
State	4941	3.8	10.1

2011–12 Total Deer Harvest by Season and Zone
DMZ	Total	Fall Bow	Permit Bow	Youth Days	Six-day Firearm	Permit Muzzleloader	Permit Shotgun	Winter Bow
1	449	104	74	13	122	113	1	22
2	2,167	628	362	41	321	383	377	55
3	659	161	122	30	111	187	18	30
4	534	103	85	6	150	168	5	17
5	3,176	834	484	45	600	426	726	61
6	1,235	485	196	30	207	153	46	118
7	1,965	586	241	20	297	192	562	67
8	4,206	1388	596	49	518	450	994	211
9	966	391	187	9	78	49	155	97
10	2,681	820	354	29	381	336	629	132
11	1,818	498	221	20	251	274	502	52
12	3,331	1052	492	41	357	359	847	183
13	1,706	766	359	5	46	55	268	207
14	1,920	590	303	17	238	103	489	180
15	1,340	403	234	15	111	107	408	62
16	1,114	357	249	11	164	101	175	57
17	1,145	249	139	18	190	87	432	30
18	342	76	45	4	123	58	1	35
19	1,711	388	255	27	296	204	471	70
21	428	65	75	13	155	77	15	28
22	146	33	32	13	26	23	7	12
23	441	66	63	11	191	87	3	20
24	236	27	45	9	98	39	4	14
25	1,402	352	228	25	155	177	429	36
26	805	104	101	33	290	192	28	57
27	996	229	166	20	89	222	247	23
28	1,083	305	174	24	92	192	231	65
29	1,007	220	155	21	94	239	257	21
30	287	39	53	9	33	68	65	20
31	254	76	34	5	20	43	67	9
34	337	55	78	16	41	83	19	45
35	1,652	428	315	43	152	303	326	85
36	955	351	182	8	40	62	158	154
37	258	83	61	2	7	83	7	15
38	43	—	—	—	—	26	16	1
39	125	14	15	1	10	22	59	4
40	33	5	—	—	—	—	—	28
41	786	197	78	16	101	68	306	20
42	398	79	58	6	71	58	122	5
43	129	23	20	3	59	9		15
45	274	23	28	9	124	60	14	16
46	228	28	32	7	97	41	4	19
47	282	59	40	2	23	32	101	25
48	1,107	212	125	12	160	116	419	63
49	658	163	142	3	22	18	133	177
50	1,860	770	443	10	116	106	353	62
51	587	187	152	4	63	41	137	3
53	35	8	11	—	2	7	5	2
54	62	11	18	—	13	9	6	5
55	71	23	12	2	11	6	11	6
56	35	—	—	—	—	—	28	7
57	17	—	2	—	—	3	2	9
58	32	—	9	—	—	3	19	1
61	20	—	2	—	3	5	8	2
63	178	42	28	5	20	47	33	3
64	45	—	—	—	14	—	31	—
65	168	36	32	3	52	42	3	—
66	30	2	4	—	—	1	23	—
67	79	—	—	—	—	79	—	—
68	71	13	9	2	20	14	12	1
70	4	—	2	—	—	1	1	—
Unknown	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Totals	50,109	14,207	8,022	767	7,025	6,509	10,815	2,764

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