# Title 30 — Game and Fish Department

## Article 30-04 — Fish and Wildlife Management

## Chapter 30-04-07 — Wildlife Replacement Values

### § 30-04-07-01. Schedule of monetary values.

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 $400
(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)
(2) Level II species $300
(northern harrier, prairie falcon, American avocet,
short-Eared owl, red-headed woodpecker, loggerhead
shrike, sedge wren, dickcissel, Le Conte's sparrow,
bobolink)
(3) Level III species $200
(Brewer's sparrow, McCown's, longspur)

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. Freshwater mussels
The values of 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, $15
orange spotted sunfish, hybrids)
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 $10 per gallon,
chubs, white suckers, stickleback, and smelt), and frogs, minimum of
salamanders, leeches, and crayfish $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
History: Effective May 1, 1984; amended effective April 1, 2006; October 1, 2020.
General Authority: NDCC 20.1-01-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 20.1-01-03
### § 30-04-07-02. Adjustments to base values for deer.

The base values listed in section 30-04-07-01 for deer are subject to the following adjustment.
Adjustments are calculated using the green, gross score determined by the Boone and Crockett
scoring method.
Antlered white tail deer score of 140 to 159 $750
Antlered white tail deer score of 160 and above $1,000
Antlered mule tail deer score of 160 to 179 $750
Antlered mule tail deer score of 180 and above $1,000
History: Effective May 1, 1984; amended effective April 1, 2006; October 1, 2020.
General Authority: NDCC 20.1-01-03
Law Implemented: NDCC 20.1-01-03
