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Estimated 2004 New Hampshire Deer Kill Tops 10,000
Hunting
Hunting- As of December 16, New Hampshire hunters had registered an estimated total of 10,080 deer during the 2004 hunting season, a 7 percent increase over last year. The firearms season for deer ended December 5, and the deer archery season ended December 15.
"We expected that the 2004 harvest would be around 10,000, more similar to results seen in 1999, 2000 and 2002," said Kent Gustafson, a wildlife biologist and the Deer Project Leader for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Gustafson explained that lower harvest figures seen in the state during 2001 and 2003 resulted from higher-than-normal winter severity impacts in the winters of 2000-2001 and 2002-2003, followed by restricted antlerless hunting opportunities enacted by Fish and Game in 2001 and 2003 in response to those winters.
"It appears as if deer numbers are recovering and, if the winter weather cooperates, deer numbers should continue to rebound in New Hampshire for the 2005 season," Gustafson said.
A final summary of this year's hunt will be available in the 2004 Harvest Summary, which will be published in March 2005.
Estimated Deer Kill by County at Close of Firearms and Archery Deer Season, 1999-2004
COUNTY 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Belknap 577 623 506 642 538 595
Carroll 736 704 600 685 486 627
Cheshire 994 957 901 1,115 895 1,033
Coos 1,357 1,365 888 1,104 1,056 978
Grafton 1,676 1,640 1,115 1,427 1,322 1,334
Hillsborough 1,560 1,715 1,587 1,885 1,555 1,611
Merrimack 1,159 1,047 839 948 795 979
Rockingham 1,476 1,692 1,721 1,904 1,637 1,712
Strafford 586 553 552 690 651 670
Sullivan 580 530 420 586 519 541
TOTAL 10,701 10,826 9,129 10,986 9,454 10,080
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is the guardian of the state's fish, wildlife and marine resources and their habitats.
Source: New Hampshire Fish and Wildlife Department
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