Permit Types and Contacts

The DWR Permit Section hours are 8 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday (except state holidays).

Shirl Dressler: (804) 367-6913 or collectionpermits@dwr.virginia.gov

Animal Population Control Permit
Commercial Nuisance Animal Permit Information Materials
Exhibit Wild Animals in Virginia Permit
Falconry Regulations, Facilities, and Equipment: Examination Guidance Document
Haul Seine Permit to Catch Minnows and Chubs for Sale
Haul Seine Permit to Take Fish for Personal Use
Haul Seine Permit to Take Nongame Fish for Sale
Licensed Shooting Preserve Application
Nonresident Harvester’s Permit to Take or Catch Fish in Back Bay and its Tributaries
Operation of Foxhound Training Preserves in Virginia
Permit to Collect Snapping Turtles and Hellgrammites for Sale
Scientific Collection
Threatened & Endangered Species
Salvage
Bird Banding
Wildlife Rehabilitation Permit Conditions

Dog Field Trial
Gill Net Permit – VA Beach Only
Grass Carp for Aquatic Vegetation Control in Private Ponds
Hold and Sell Certain Fish, Snakes, Snapping Turtles, and Hellgrammites for Sale Permit
Import and Possess Certain Non-Native (Exotic) Wildlife in Virginia
Import Tilapia and Clawed Frogs
Possess, Propagate, Buy and Sell Certain Wildlife in Virginia (Fish)
Possess, Propagate, Buy and Sell Certain Wildlife in Virginia (Sunfish)
Possess, Propagate, Buy and Sell Certain Wildlife in Virginia (Wildlife)
Permit to Deal in Furs
Raccoon Hound Field Trial
Permit to Stuff and Mount Birds, Animals, or Fish, and Part of Them for Sale or Compensation (Taxidermy)