2009-2010 Deer Harvest Summaries

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New Jersey deer hunters harvested 52,783 deer during the 2009–2010 season between Sept. 12, 2009 and Feb. 20, 2010. The harvest for this deer season was the second lowest harvest In 14 years, and was 1.7 percent lower than the 52,372 deer taken in 2008. The antlerless portion of the 2009 harvest was 33,330 animals, down 4 percent from 2008. The antlered portion of the 2009 harvest was 19,042 animals, up 3.5 percent from 2008.

2009–10 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	2011	273	246	566	411	395	74	46
Bergen	85	38	13	2	15	4	13	0
Burlington	4444	903	546	813	548	1428	146	60
Camden	734	194	126	135	66	162	44	7
Cape May	507	77	81	140	131	14	45	19
Cumberland	2648	603	378	510	563	428	100	66
Essex	132	49	44	2	16	7	14
Gloucester	2547	593	348	322	389	792	67	36
Hunterdon	8519	2615	965	1253	976	2325	290	95
Mercer	1906	494	182	222	190	729	68	21
Middlesex	988	317	110	139	64	315	36	7
Monmouth	3837	1249	633	413	299	982	229	32
Morris	3860	1306	557	435	392	918	232	20
Ocean	1817	377	276	372	266	418	75	33
Passaic	497	107	64	64	166	10	71	15
Salem	3588	907	502	378	744	903	74	80
Somerset	3735	1244	518	384	335	978	250	26
Sussex	5680	1510	705	920	1384	930	147	84
Union	24	0	1	2	0	21	0	0
Warren	5206	1301	547	942	673	1618	75	50
Unknown	18	4	5	1	3	3	1	1
Totals	52783	14161	6847	8015	7631	13380	2051	698

The 2009–10 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	6.6
2	149	6.0	18.2
3	153	1.9	3.8
4	71	4.1	8.8
5	215	6.3	17.6
6	153	3.1	5.2
7	103	6.5	19.1
8	203	7.4	20.4
9	52	5.1	18.8
10	110	9.5	23.7
11	68	9.3	26.6
12	152	8.2	25.3
13	109	3.8	15.4
14	165	3.9	11.2
15	86	4.7	14.9
16	91	4.3	12.8
17	90	4.2	13.9
18	70	2.1	4.3
19	159	3.5	10.3
21	192	1.4	2.0
22	69	1.3	2.4
23	178	1.4	2.0
24	169	1.0	1.3
25	164	3.1	10.1
26	195	2.5	4.0
27	103	3.7	11.0
28	125	3.9	10.6
29	98	3.8	13.2
30	92	1.7	4.3
31	40	3.8	10.9
34	245	1.4	2.5
35	171	3.3	11.0
36	127	2.3	7.4
37	43	1.8	5.7
38	12	3.9	9.4
39	15	4.1	10.5
40	1	2.0	3.0
41	39	8.1	23.2
42	90	1.6	5.3
43	27	2.3	4.2
45	65	3.0	4.2
46	79	2.2	3.2
47	54	2.3	5.7
48	86	4.7	14.8
49	71	2.0	6.3
50	137	3.8	11.3
51	138	1.2	4.4
53	8	1.3	5.0
54	10	3.1	6.0
55	6	4.8	12.3
56	1	1.0	16.0
57	1	2.0	22.0
58	4	0.8	2.0
61	5	1.6	3.2
63	33	3.4	9.4
64	3	6.7	14.0
65	17	6.3	11.4
66	3	3.3	7.7
67	15	0.8	6.3
68	16	1.5	4.9
70	1	0.0	2.0
State	5205	—	—

2009–10 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	496	98	83	12	123	161	3	16
2	2711	813	327	33	356	608	514	60
3	589	131	74	19	102	237	16	10
4	625	103	82	10	139	257	8	26
5	3789	1050	441	48	680	473	1048	49
6	801	184	124	7	183	190	69	44
7	1969	478	191	18	311	253	677	41
8	4137	1178	455	33	672	421	1230	148
9	979	366	149	8	84	90	227	55
10	2611	765	317	32	429	284	706	78
11	1812	532	172	23	269	257	531	28
12	3844	1152	453	36	445	393	1184	181
13	1680	723	295	5	76	83	346	152
14	1856	622	199	17	222	116	558	122
15	1285	377	139	14	159	86	459	51
16	1168	327	205	12	184	145	246	49
17	1252	262	116	16	190	127	532	9
18	298	54	64	8	76	73	6	17
19	1643	387	222	23	259	166	538	48
21	383	45	73	9	148	78	4	26
22	164	30	31	8	43	26	11	15
23	353	50	49	7	151	72	5	19
24	228	22	31	3	108	47	3	14
25	1651	366	165	18	239	184	648	31
26	773	86	96	26	290	203	36	36
27	1136	308	173	28	114	216	278	19
28	1323	352	202	27	202	233	286	21
29	1291	285	164	23	129	327	341	22
30	393	64	44	13	68	104	82	18
31	435	133	58	8	72	75	62	27
34	606	91	100	25	159	157	19	55
35	1874	465	286	34	177	358	498	56
36	941	368	192	1	37	84	109	150
37	243	78	51	1	13	70	2	28
38	113	0	0	0	0	52	61	0
39	158	13	18	0	23	28	71	5
40	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
41	905	236	81	11	140	114	308	15
42	475	85	61	3	73	81	157	15
43	114	24	23	3	32	21	3	8
45	276	14	33	9	121	76	9	14
46	252	21	31	10	124	52	5	9
47	309	69	41	9	58	51	68	13
48	1269	243	108	14	177	108	604	15
49	445	123	93	4	36	19	120	50
50	1543	632	282	13	115	79	309	113
51	601	163	111	3	50	26	208	40
53	40	6	4	1	2	19	6	2
54	60	10	15	0	14	8	11	2
55	74	19	9	2	19	16	5	4
56	16	0	0	0	0	2	14	0
57	22	0	3	0	0	4	15	0
58	8	0	2	0	0	2	4	0
61	16	0	4	0	4	4	4	0
63	310	100	48	9	30	63	56	4
64	42	0	0	0	19	0	21	2
65	194	43	43	2	58	40	4	4
66	23	1	2	0	1	1	18	0
67	95	0	0	0	0	86	0	9
68	78	13	9	0	10	25	16	5
70	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Unknown	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Totals	52783	14161	6847	698	8015	7631	13380	2051

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