CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire's regular firearms deer hunting season opens Nov. 11, the state Fish and Game Department said. The department called it a big day for the state's more than 60,000 hunters.

The season runs through Dec. 6 in most of the state, the department said. In Wildlife Management Unit A, the state's northernmost hunting unit, it closes Nov. 29. Hunters should check the New Hampshire Hunting and Trapping Digest for rules specific to each unit, the department said. The digest is available from license agents around the state, at Fish and Game headquarters in Concord and on the department's website.

Hunters who take a deer can usually register it online. That option will not be available on the first three days of the season, Nov. 11 through Nov. 13, so the department can collect biological data, officials said. On those days, hunters must bring their deer to a registration station in person. The stations remain open to hunters who prefer to register in person for the rest of the season.

The department also urged hunters not to use urine-based lures, which it said can spread chronic wasting disease, a neurological illness that is always fatal to white-tailed deer and moose. The department strongly recommended synthetic lures and said a product whose packaging does not say "synthetic" is likely made from natural urine.

Hunters who travel out of state cannot bring whole deer carcasses into New Hampshire from any place where chronic wasting disease has been documented, the department said.

Wildlife violations can be reported to the department's Operation Game Thief program through its 24-hour hotline, 1-800-344-4262.

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