http://www.dgif.state.va.us/hunting/harvest.html
This website provides county-by-county harvest reports for bear, deer, and turkey for the past three years.
For the 1999-2000 hunting season, there were 906 black bear and 188,757 deer harvested statewide. Bear harvests decreased slightly west of the Blue Ridge and increased east of the mountains from the previous year.
It is believed that a statewide black bear population now reaches between 3,500 and 4,500, and the deer population is about 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.
|
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 |