JF Griffin - Index

JF Griffin - magazine - Index

Deer Hunting
regulations/CWD
1 . A valid transportation tag first must
Remember: Bring your hunting license a precaution in areas where CWD has
be detached from your license or per-
and applicable deer season permit(s) to been identified, hunters are advised not
mit then securely attached to the deer
the deer check station .
to eat tissues known to harbor CWD
immediately after it has been killed .
2 . Youth and farmer hunters creating a
hand-written transportation tag must
include the following information:
Conservation ID number, date, hunting
season, gender of deer, number of antler
points, county, township and deer management
zone . See page 35 for a printed
Youth/Farmer Transportation Tag .
3 . Transportation Tags from 2008 permits
are valid for the entire length of
the Permit Bow, Permit Muzzleloader
and Permit Shotgun seasons, including
January and February 2009, if the zone
specified on the original permit is open
for hunting during these dates .
4 . All Supplemental Deer Transportation
Tags are valid on the day of issuance for
taking another deer .
5 . See Mandatory Deer Check Station
Requirement below .
After checking your deer —
Possession/Sale
• Metal possession seals (affixed to deer
at check stations) must be kept until all
venison is consumed and as long as you
keep any part or parts, including antlers .
Persons with deer mounts should write
their name, legal possession seal number,
date of kill and season of harvest on
back of the mounting plate for future
reference .
• It is illegal to sell deer meat, deer antlers
or any part of a deer except deer
hides . However, nonprofit organizations
conducting wild game dinners for social
and fundraising events may offer game
or furbearer meat (the sale of which
is otherwise prohibited) provided that
the meat been harvested, stored and
processed in accordance with applicable
laws and regulations .
prions (lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen,
pancreas, brain, and spinal cord) and to
“bone out” the meat .
CWD has been diagnosed in deer
and elk in 13 states and two Canadian
Provinces:
Colorado
After Harvesting a Deer: Mandatory
Deer Check Requirement
Spotlighting
Immediately upon harvesting a deer,
hunters must complete in ink all required
tags .
1 . All hunters are required to register harvested
deer. Bring your deer to the closest
official deer check station (see Deer
Check Stations, page 58 .
2 . Be discrete when transporting your deer
to and from a check station, butcher or
taxidermist; rinse away excess blood,
turn the field-dressed side to face in
toward your vehicle and push the
tongue back into the deer’s mouth .
3 . Deer must be taken to the check station
by the hunter who killed the deer
on the day killed, by 8 p .m . during the
regular Fall Bow Season, and by 7 p .m .
during all other seasons .
4 . Transportation Tags must be surrendered
to the check station operator .
Check station personnel will attach a
legal metal possession seal to the deer,
and, if applicable, will issue a New
Jersey Supplemental Transportation Tag
for the harvest of another deer . It is the
hunter’s responsibility to confirm that
the seal is attached and locked on the
deer .
• Spotlighting deer during hours of darkness
from a vehicle is illegal while in
possession of a weapon capable of killing
deer, whether the weapon is cased,
uncased or in a locked compartment.
This does not apply to the regular use
of headlights when traveling in a normal
manner on public or private roads .
Chronic Wasting Disease
(CWD) Guidance
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
affects the central nervous system of deer
family species . Most scientists believe the
disease is caused by an infectious protein
or prion . CWD has been diagnosed in
mule deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed
deer and mule deer, white-tailed deer
hybrids and North American elk . Moose
have been experimentally infected through
oral inoculation .
There is no evidence linking CWD
to disease in humans; however, the
U .S . Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the World Health
Organization recommend that people do
not consume meat from an apparently
sick deer, elk or any animal found dead or
known to be positive for CWD . Also, as
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1 Alberta, Canada2 llinois3 Nebraska1 Kansas2 New Mexico3 New York1 Minnesota2 Utah3 South Dakota1 Montana2 Wisconsin1 Oklahoma2 West Virginia3 Wyoming1 *
Saskatchewan, Canada1 1 CWD in both captive and wild
deer
2 CWD in captive deer only
3 CWD in wild deer only
* captive research herd
CWD can be transmitted among
adult deer, and the prions have been
found in the brain, eyes, spinal cord,
spleen, tonsils and lymph nodes . Prions
in these tissues of infected deer can
potentially infect other deer if they are
disposed of improperly .
To ensure you do not inadvertently
spread CWD prions from the abovelisted
states:
• Follow the rules of the states in which
you hunt to ensure you do not spread
CWD
• Bring back to New Jersey only hides,
capes and boned meat free of spinal
cord, brain and associated lymph
nodes
• Bring back to New Jersey skull plates
free of brain residue and disinfected
by soaking in a 30 percent Clorox
solution for 15 minutes
• Do not dispose of carcasses (particularly
skull, brain, spinal cord, lymph
nodes) in the wild when you return to
New Jersey . The remains of an eviscerated
butchered deer or elk must
be disposed of in the household trash
where it will be delivered to an appropriate
landfill .
August 2008 For more information contact New Jersey New Jersey Fish & Wildlife Digest | 33
Division of Fish and Wildlife at (609)292-2965 2008 Hunting and Trapping Issue