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
Janita Royal: (804) 367-0141 or collectionpermits@dwr.virginia.gov
- 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)