Tasmania has a number of game species that are hunted, trapped and used for commercial and recreational purposes including: brown quail, ringneck pheasant, muttonbird (short-tailed shearwater), black duck, chestnut teal, grey teal, mountain duck, wood ducks, Bennett's wallaby, Tasmanian pademelon (rufous wallaby) and fallow deer.
Your hunting licence:
A three-step process exists to legally hunt in Tasmania. We've created a fact sheet with information to help you complete each step:
How to Legally Hunt Game in Tasmania - Fact Sheet (PDF 181Kb)
Take forms are due from 15 November 2023
It is a condition of your Recreational Hunting Licence that you return your Take form for each season before the start of the next one.
Until your Take form is received and processed, you will not be able to purchase a new Recreational Hunting Licence.