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                                       Fisheries Section

The Fisheries Section works to enhance and protect Delaware’s fish and aquatic resources and habitats.
There are abundant fishing areas in the state; dozens of warm water ponds. streams, marshes, swamps and two
ponds stocked seasonally with trout.

Delaware also offers 22 fishing and boating sites providing access to vast populations of striped bass, summer
flounder and black drum, as well as 11 artificial reef sites, which host and can teem with black sea bass, tautog
and other species.

This page directs you to specific information – from fishing and boat licenses, access areas and trout maps, to
key fisheries and aquatic resources, and conservation and education initiatives, including DNREC's Aquatic
Resources Education Center and the stateTrout Stamp program.

ALERT: The Division of Fish & Wildlife has received a number of calls recently from anglers who thought they were buying a Delaware fishing license from the website fishinglicense.org when they made a purchase from the site. This private unaffiliated website does NOT sell licenses, but sells information about fishing and how to obtain fishing licenses for $19.99 - the same information that is readily available on the Division of Fish & Wildlife's website. Delaware fishing licenses, meanwhile, are sold online ONLY on the Division of Fish & Wildlife website, www.fw.delaware.gov, at the licensing desk in DNREC’s Richardson & Robbins Building, 89 Kings Highway, Dover, DE 19901, and by authorized license agents statewide. ONLY the Division of Fish & Wildlife's website is authorized to sell Delaware fishing and hunting licenses online. For additional information on Delaware fishing and hunting licenses, please call 302-739-9918.

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Click here for more recreational fishing information

 

2016 Delaware Fishing Guide


New in the Delaware Fishing Guide for 2016:

 - Tilefish Regulations.

 - Recreational Fishing Survey.

 - Interactive Website for Anglers. 

ADVISORY: If you purchased a Delaware fishing license (with the exception of the Non-Resident Boat Fishing License) your FIN number was automatically generated and appears on your license, with no further FIN registration necessary.

 

More Recreational Fishing Info

Related: Click here to see where your fishing license dollars go. 


 

 

Fisheries Biologist Cathy Martin, with a 6.5 lb largemouth bass taken by electrofisher in Broad Creek on the Nanticoke River

Fisheries Biologist Cathy Martin, with a 6.5 lb largemouth bass taken by electrofisher in Broad Creek on the Nanticoke River.

Sportfish Restoration Logo

This program is authorized with State fish and wildlife agencies for sport fish management, boating access and aquatic resource education.

 

 

Clcik here for more commercial fishing information

Click for Fish & Wildlife Enforcement page

Click for information on boater safety

 

Click for info on reasearch & management activities

Click for more information on education & outreach activities

 
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