New Brunswick hunting seasons

Every boundary in Hunt traces to the authority's own published GIS. A drawn boundary is not a claim that rules inside it are certified; each species page says unit by unit which are.

• Eleven species answer across all 27 zones in 15 rules: white-tailed deer, moose, black bear, snowshoe hare, raccoon, striped skunk, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse, coyote, crow and ring-necked pheasant. New Brunswick needs no annual ingest — every window in Hunting Regulation s. 11(1) ends in the word “annually” and is stated as an ordinal over weekdays, so the regulation is standing law and the dates are derived from the rule.
• White-tailed deer is three different answers by zone, from s. 11.1 alone: no antlered season in zones 4, 5 and 9; antlered deer only and five consecutive weeks rather than eight in zones 1, 2 and 3; the full eight weeks elsewhere. s. 11.2 then splits it again by method, reserving the first three weeks to a bow or crossbow — and unlike Newfoundland the crossbow IS included.
• ANTLERLESS DEER IS NOT ANSWERED, in either direction. Its season is certain (s. 11(1)(a) gives it the same eight weeks) but s. 3.1(4.1) lets the Minister set a quota of zero for a zone, which closes it without amending any regulation, and the quotas are published nowhere in the regulation. The same applies to the moose quota per zone under Moose Hunting Regulation s. 5(1).
• The muzzle-loading week — the week beginning the seventh Monday after the first Monday in October — is not encoded, because s. 3.11(1) confines it to the zones where antlerless deer may be hunted, which depends on that same unpublished quota. Every deer rule is therefore certified to the day before that week opens rather than to the end of the eight-week grant.
• Three species the source or the catalogue does not resolve: s. 11(1)(b.1) gives “squirrel” a season and names no species, s. 11(1)(c.1) does the same for “cormorant” and ties its second window to the federal duck season, and groundhog is not canonicalized. Wild turkey and fur harvesting are separate regulations.
• The province publishes zero-area holes of three and four points in several zones; they are recorded as untestable by point sampling rather than as disagreements, and certification rests on the inventory.
• The province publishes zero-area holes of three and four points in several zones; they are recorded as untestable by point sampling rather than as disagreements, and certification rests on the inventory.
• This page describes sport hunting seasons. It does not describe harvesting under treaty or Aboriginal rights, which is a separate legal context North Ground does not evaluate.

• Fish and Wildlife Act, SNB 1980, c. F-14.1 · Government of New Brunswick
• Hunter Orange Regulation – Fish and Wildlife Act, N.B. Reg. 81-58 · Government of New Brunswick
• Hunting Regulation – Fish and Wildlife Act, N.B. Reg. 84-133 · Government of New Brunswick
• Moose Hunting Regulation – Fish and Wildlife Act, N.B. Reg. 94-47 · Government of New Brunswick
• Posting of Signs on Land Regulation, N.B. Reg. 89-106 · Government of New Brunswick
• New Brunswick hunting regulations · the authority's own hunting page

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