What’s New FOR THE 2024–2025 SEASON
As part of the Commission’s ongoing effort to keep you informed, we reserve this page of the digest each year to identify significant regulatory, legislative, and agency-related changes that you should be aware of each season. Please note that the information found on this page is not a complete list of regulation changes. For your convenience, all regulation changes appear throughout the digest in RED . NC WILD “TIP”
Hunting • Special Chronic Wasting Disease regula- tions are in effect in the following counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Bladen, Cum- berland, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Iredell, Robeson, Rockingham, Samp- son, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes, and Yadkin. See page 67 for details. • The hunting season dates and bag limits for pheasants are now different on the Outer Banks than in the rest of the state. See page 69 for details. • The western blackpowder deer season now opens two Saturdays before Thanksgiving. Also, the western gun deer season now opens the Saturday after Thanksgiving and closes on January 1. See pages 62-66. • In the western deer season, Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday are now Youth Deer Hunting Days. See page 62. • There are additional days for hunting ant- lerless deer during blackpowder and gun seasons in Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Hen- derson, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties. See page 66. • Hunters may now use dogs to hunt feral swine from January 1-31 on Nantahala Game Land. See page 91.
Inland Fishing • In the Dan River downstream of Danville, VA and John H. Kerr Reservoir the minimum size limit for striped bass and their hybrids will be 20 inches with no fish greater than 26 inches may be possessed from October 1 - May 31. • In Farmer Lake the minimum size limit for striped bass and its hybrids is 16 inches with a 4 fish daily creel limit. • No American Shad may be possessed in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin upstream of the Blewett Falls Dam. • Freshwater fishing regulations are now avail- able in Spanish. Para las normas de pesca de agua dulce en español, escanee aquí. Scan the QR code below to view.
Now certain violations for unlawful take and possession of inland game fish and nongame fish are part of the reward eligible violations.
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North Carolina Inland Fishing, Hunting & Trapping Regulations
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