2024 Harvest Information

Harvest data is posted each morning with the prior day’s harvest.
All data is preliminary and subject to revision.
Last updated December 17, 2024.

Total Harvest by Zone
Bear Hunting Zone	Bears Harvested in Segment A						Segment A Total	Bears Harvested in Segment B						Segment B Total	Season Total
	10/14	10/15	10/16	10/17	10/18	10/19		12/09	12/10	12/11	12/12	12/13	12/14
Zone 1	21	15	14	16	18	13	97	11	5	0	2	4	6	28	125
Zone 2	24	27	13	18	19	15	116	6	3	0	3	5	3	20	136
Zone 3	31	29	18	12	15	10	115	1	4	2	2	1	2	12	127
Zone 4	24	16	7	9	7	5	68	8	1	0	2	3	2	16	84
Zone 5	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	100	87	53	55	59	43	397	26	13	2	9	13	13	76	473
Harvested Bears Tagged This Year	10	9	10	7	5	4	45	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	49
Cumulative Harvest Rate*	5.0%	9.5%	14.6%	18.1%	20.6%	22.6%	22.6%	23.6%	24.1%	24.6%	24.6%	24.6%	24.6%	–	24.6%

*Based On 199 Tagged Bears Available for Harvest

Bear Hunting Zone information is available on the Hunting Explorer app at https://njdepwptest.net/njfw/bearzones/.

Total Harvest by County
County	Bears Harvested in Segment A						Segment A Total	Bears Harvested in Segment B						Segment B Total	Season Total
	10/14	10/15	10/16	10/17	10/18	10/19		12/09	12/10	12/11	12/12	12/13	12/14
Sussex	39	39	23	27	41	23	192	13	10	2	6	7	8	46	238
Warren	29	23	11	17	12	10	102	11	1	0	1	5	4	22	124
Passaic	4	8	3	2	3	3	23	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	27
Morris	25	14	14	9	3	5	70	1	1	0	0	1	1	4	73
Bergen	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Hunterdon	2	2	2	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7
Somerset	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mercer	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	100	87	53	55	59	43	397	26	13	2	9	13	13	76	473

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