https://www.njherald.com/story/news/2021/07/21/nj-bear-hunt-2021-division-of-fish-and-game/8044391002/

Bruce A. ScrutonNew Jersey Herald1:161:16https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.472.0_en.html#goog_1632181709

There will be no bear hunt in New Jersey in 2021.

Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn M.LaTourette has not signed off on the updated Comprehensive Black Bear Management Plan and without such a plan, the Fish and Game Council cannot set a hunting season.

In mid-afternoon Wednesday, the Division of Fish and Game, part of DEP, postedon its website that on June 21, 2021, New Jersey’s Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy (CBBMP) expired, “and as such, there is no black bear hunt in 2021.”

The message read that in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling on Sept.27, 2007, no black bear hunt may occur without a “properly-promulgated CBBMP proposed by the New Jersey Fish and Game Council and approved by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.”https://774cd21ddf1ea8e50a944cc6a5c65345.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

Not only has he not signed off on the updated plan…