VIRGINIA

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/hunting/

This website provides county-by-county harvest reports for bear, deer, and turkey for the past three years.  

For the 2009-2010 hunting season, there were 2,304 black bear and 256,512 deer harvested statewide. 

It is believed that a statewide black bear population now reaches between 3,500 and 4,500, and the deer population is about 850,000-1,000,000. (The 1607 population is estimated to have been about 500,000.)

The following are the total number of Virginia raw fur pelts purchased from hunters and trappers by licensed fur dealers during the 1964/65 - 1999/2000 fur harvest seasons.  For bobcat, coyote, gray fox, red fox, otter and raccoon, statistics for the seasons since 1993-94 are based on hunter surveys.

SEASON

bEAVER

BOBCAT

COYOTE

GRAY

FOX

RED

FOX

MINK

MUSKRAT

NUTRIA

OPOSSUM

RIVER

OTTER

RACCOON

STRIPED SKUNK

wEASEL

TOTAL PELTS

1964-65

6691

98

 

2017

 

5832

287982

1220

8635

1800

42438

3853

279

360845

1965-66

3416

135

 

3189

 

3815

215000

320

8516

1250

32125

3538

304

271608

1966-67

6289

117

 

3412

 

3716

184807

 

7369

1406

44321

4129

248

255814

1967-68

2948

178

 

1649

1023

2437

120471

4

7247

559

19160

2092

152

157920

1968-69

4603

47

 

2904

1401

3421

209818

850

6951

807

31787

1827

87

264503

1969-70

3702

90

 

2456

1368

2597

177844

7

6806

741

28094

1674

113

225492

1970-71

2618

59

 

1758

1102

1899

128991

3337

7468

890

22181

547

45

170895

1971-72

4883

82

 

2640

1687

2146

146905

 

5885

648

28877

249

62

194064

1972-73

6254

255

 

4627

4101

3685

200543

 

13178

642

46428

1236

242

281191

1973-74

4307

232

 

7352

2771

2883

163678

 

21760

602

39019

2789

260

245653

1974-75

4457

370

 

9076

3077

3965

172118

 

34789

661

50699

2704

224

282140

1975-76

4490

451

 

11479

3734

5072

191206

4848

25034

594

70418

2138

138

319602

1976-77

3959

965

 

9688

4164

3417

145177

2137

22802

550

54671

2380

128

250038

1977-78

3713

237

 

11572

4991

2787

141921

737

18161

815

63472

1677

103

250186

1978-79

4891

397

 

13820

6244

2488

141409

 

21832

784

75014

1886

141

268906

1979-80

8970

311

 

16864

7782

3890

167803

776

35483

947

87678

2377

134

333015

1980-81

11154

429

 

26063

11038

5835

213349

1229

40261

1192

118950

3221

239

432960

1981-82

7147

314

 

15193

8854

3053

110809

93

18274

757

85657

996

65

251212

1982-83

3081

339

 

16901

9136

2480

82038

 

18841

419

85987

550

100

219872

1983-84

4182

223

 

13701

7319

2604

95037

 

10852

649

141,477

84

16

209630

1984-85

3560

184

 

14630

9527

2333

98312

 

9854

610

113,011

70

16

208167

1985-86

6904

296

 

12945

6470

2208

71634

 

7308

709

62260

40

6

170780

1986-87

6192

277

 

10850

6459

2238

64579

19

8761

733

69678

5

9

169800

1987-88

4728

263

 

13081

5319

1646

63464

1706

5714

785

65065

54

12

161837

1988-89

DATA MISSING

1989-90

1798

44

 

1783

913

400

13080

 

680

182

9125

17

0

28022

1990-91

2222

16

 

871

971

391

15734

 

385

140

4256

1

0

24987

1991-92

3887

46

 

2090

1376

647

21961

 

1369

436

5254

2

0

37068

1992-93

1677

41

 

1517

812

382

10380

55

619

267

4918

3

0

20671

1993-94

1522

2,944

1,295

13,421

11,890

331

14832

 

396

363

177,087

16

 

224,097

1994-95

5340

2,410

2,096

16,554

17,497

531

21353

17

1352

845

128,139

58

2

196,194

1995-96

2700

3,387

3,493

14,389

22,227

274

7010

24

727

445

124,893

75

0

179,644

1996-97

9418

2,713

2,009

21,501

19,190

868

23925

22

2375

1162

140.560

74

3

223,820

1997-98

5811

4,872

3,739

30,816

24,359

534

19926

28

1362

821

136,748

96

2

229,114

1998-99

1578

4,004

6,277

28,461

17,315

182

3598

 

402

711

96,421

9

0

158,434

1999-00

3470

3,050

3,304

  14,107

15,632

219

9673

28

111

633

83,369

26

0

133,511

 

Virginia Black Bear Harvest (http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/bear/harvestsummary.asp)

Virginia Deer Kill, 1947 to 2009 (http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/deer/harvestsummary.asp)