{"id":2027,"date":"2022-01-28T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?page_id=2027"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:58:50","slug":"scientific-salvage-collecting-permits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wildlife\/scientific-salvage-collecting-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific and Salvage Collecting Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NJDEP Fish and Wildlife may issue a Scientific Collecting or Salvage Permit to qualified individuals meeting certain criteria. Permits are issued by the bureau under whose auspices the species of interest falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Species<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Phone<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Email<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/freshwater\/freshwater-fisheries-permits\/\">Freshwater Fish<\/a><\/td><td>Bureau of Freshwater Fisheries<\/td><td>North: <a href=\"tel:9082362118\">908-236-2118<\/a><br>South: <a href=\"tel:6092596964\">609-259-6964<\/a>                                                          <\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/marine_scicollectapp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saltwater Fish and Shellfish<\/a><\/td><td>Marine Fisheries Administration<\/td><td><a href=\"tel:6097482020\">609-748-2020<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:Heather.Corbett@deptest.nj.gov\">Heather.Corbett@deptest.nj.gov<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wildlife\/game-animal-permit-applications\/\">Game Animals<\/a><\/td><td>Wildlife Permits Unit<\/td><td><a href=\"tel:609-292-9591\">609-292-9591<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:NJWildlifePermits@deptest.nj.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJWildlifePermits@deptest.nj.gov<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wildlife\/exotic-and-nongame-wildlife-permit-applications\/\">Exotic and Nongame<\/a> (except nongame scientific collecting permits)<\/td><td>Wildlife Permits Unit<\/td><td><a href=\"tel:609-292-9591\">609-292-9591<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:NJWildlifePermits@deptest.nj.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NJWildlifePermits@deptest.nj.gov<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wildlife\/exotic-and-nongame-wildlife-permit-applications\/\">Scientific Collecting Permits<\/a> (nongame species only)<\/td><td>Endangered and Nongame Species Program<\/td><td><a href=\"tel:6092929400\">609-292-9400<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:scientificcollectingpermits@deptest.nj.gov\">ScientificCollectingPermits@deptest.nj.gov<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NJDEP Fish and Wildlife may issue a Scientific Collecting or Salvage Permit to qualified individuals meeting certain criteria. Permits are issued by the bureau under whose auspices the species of interest falls. Species Contact Phone Email Freshwater Fish Bureau of Freshwater Fisheries North: 908-236-2118South: 609-259-6964 Saltwater Fish and Shellfish Marine Fisheries Administration 609-748-2020 Heather.Corbett@deptest.nj.gov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63425,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2027\/revisions\/63425"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}