North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 30 - Game and Fish Department › Article 30-04 - Fish and Wildlife Management › Chapter 30-04-07 - Wildlife Replacement Values › Section 30-04-07-01 - Schedule of monetary values

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The following base values for wildlife are
				  established:
1.
Big game
a. Deer
$500
b. Pronghorn
$1,000
c. Elk, moose, and bighorn sheep, see North Dakota
								Century Code section 20.1-01-03
2.
Upland game birds
a. Prairie chicken
$500
b. Sage grouse
$500
c. Turkey
$250
d. Upland game bird (e.g., pheasant, grouse, gray
								partridge)
$50
3.
Migratory game birds
a. Swan
$200
b. Sandhill crane
$100
c. Goose
$50
d. Redhead, canvasback, pintail
$75
e. All other ducks and mergansers
$50
f. Other migratory game birds
$50
4.
Nongame birds
a. Species of conservation priority
(1) Level I species
(horned grebe, American white pelican, American
								bittern, Swainson's hawk, ferruginous hawk, yellow rail, willet, upland
								sandpiper, long-billed curlew, marbled godwit, Wilson's phalarope, Franklin's
								gull, black tern, black-billed cuckoo, Sprague's pipit, grasshopper sparrow,
								Baird's sparrow, Nelson's sharp-tailed sparrow, lark bunting, chestnut-collared
								longspur)
$400
(2) Level II species
(northern harrier, prairie falcon, American avocet,
								short-Eared owl, red-headed woodpecker, loggerhead shrike, sedge wren,
								dickcissel, Le Conte's sparrow, bobolink)
$300
(3) Level III species
(Brewer's sparrow, McCown's, longspur)
$200
b. Waterbirds (e.g., Egret, heron, loon,
								grebe)
Whooping crane
$1,000
Egret and heron
$50
Loon
$200
Grebe
$50
c. Shorebirds (e.g., avocet, sandpiper,
								killdeer)
$50
d. Raptors
Golden Eagle
$500
Bald Eagle
$1,000
Peregrine
$1,000
e. All other raptors (e.g., Vulture, hawk, owl,
								falcon)
$100
f. All other birds
$25
Except: English sparrows, blackbirds, crows,
								starlings
No Value
5.
Protected furbearers and small game mammals
a. Bear
$1,000
b. Bobcat and lynx
$500
c. Mountain lion
$1,000
d. Wolf
$1,000
e. Red fox and coyote
$75
f. Otter, fisher, pine marten, wolverine
$200
g. All other protected furbearers
$50
h. Small game mammals (e.g., rabbit, gray squirrel,
								fox squirrel)
$25
6.
Snapping Turtle
$50
7.
Fish and Freshwater mussels
The values of fish are those listed in the American
								Fisheries Society Special Publication No. 30, "Investigation and Monetary
								Values of Fish and Freshwater Mussell Kills", 2003 mussels are those listed in
								the American Fisheries Society Special Publication No. 35, "Investigation and
								Monetary Values of Fish and Freshwater Mollusk Kills", 2017. A copy is
								available for viewing at the Bismarck office of the North Dakota game and fish
								department. This publication may be purchased by writing to the following
								address:
American Fisheries Society
5410 Grosvenor Lane, Suite 100
Bethesda, MD 20814
7.
Fish and other aquatic species restitution
								values
Value per Fish
a. Walleye (zander, hybrids)
$30
b. Sauger (suageye, hybrids)
$30
c. Northern pike
$30
d. Black bass (largemouth, smallmouth)
$30
e. Channel catfish
$30
f. Flathead catfish
$30
g. Salmon
$30
h. Trout
$30
i. Sunfish (bluegill, pumpkinseed, green sunfish,
								longear sunfish, orange spotted sunfish, hybrids)
$15
j. Crappie (white, black)
$15
k. Yellow perch
$15
l. Burbot
$15
m. White bass
$15
n. Pallid sturgeon
$1,000
o. Paddlefish
$500
p. Sturgeon (lake, shovelnose)
$300
q. Muskellunge
$300
r. Other nongame fish
$10
s. Live aquatic bait, including fish species
								(fathead minnows, creek chubs, white suckers, stickleback, and smelt), and
								frogs, salamanders, leeches, and crayfish
$10 per gallon, minimum of $20
t. Turtles. The restitution values for turtles are
								as follows:
(1) Painted turtle
$50 per turtle
(2) All other turtle species
$200 per turtle
General Authority:
NDCC 20.1-01-03
Law Implemented:
NDCC
					 20.1-01-03