North Dakota · Fishing license · Cost
How much is a fishing license in North Dakota?
$27 a year if you live here, $68 if you don't. Add the compulsory certificate — 2 dollars for residents, 5 for visitors — to every licence price.
Just passing through? Three days costs $48 — the annual pays for itself from about 2 of those.
Every license price
| License | Who | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Individual season fishing (16 and over) | Resident | $27 |
| Senior citizen fishing (65+) | Resident | $10 |
| Fishing, hunting, furbearer certificate Compulsory alongside the licence — one per year per person. | Resident | $2 |
| Individual season fishing (16 and over) | Visitor | $68 |
| Married couple season fishing Covers both spouses. | Visitor | $108 |
| Ten days | Visitor | $58 |
| Three days Only ten dollars less than the ten-day licence. | Visitor | $48 |
| Fishing, hunting, furbearer certificate Compulsory alongside the licence — one per year per person. | Visitor | $5 |
Fees inside the price
Every angler also needs the fishing, hunting and furbearer certificate: 2 dollars for residents, 5 for visitors, once a year. The general game and habitat licence is a hunting item and is not needed for fishing alone.
How long your money lasts
NDGF: fishing licences are annual and run 1 April to 31 March. A licence bought in March is worth days.
What we could not pin down
Rather than fill these in from somewhere else, they stay open until NDGF states them plainly.
- Paddlefish snagging needs its own tag on top of the licence; the tag price was not on the pages read and is left out.
- Free fishing weekend: no dated 2026 announcement was read.
