This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
NJ stocks chukar on WMAs and gives it a real hunting season (not just dog-training birds) in the same season-table row as pheasant and Hungarian partridge. 2026-27 dates not yet published (same absence confirmed as pheasant). Reference only, NOT this year's dates: 2025-26 season was Nov. 8, 2025 (8 a.m.)–Feb. 16, 2026, closed Dec. 8–13 & 17, 2025, combined bag "7 partridge, 2 pheasant". Separately, WMAs with dog-training areas also receive 20 chukar/week for 4 weeks before Youth Pheasant Day, for pre-season dog training only (not part of the regular-season bag). Re-checked 2026-08-18 (barred-dove-style batch check for the state, since all of NJ's stocked upland species share one regs digest/table): still not published, and the original check already probed the 2026-27 digest URL directly (HTTP 404), not a paraphrase-miss, so no new fetch dispatched. Re-check once NJDEP posts a new digest edition. Re-checked 2026-08-19: still not published (dep.nj.gov direct WebFetch blocked by this environment's egress policy tonight; WebSearch found only 2025-26 digest files, no 2026-2027 digest or segment PDF, and the 2026-2027 page that does exist is the separate Migratory Game Bird Population Status page, not the upland regs digest). Re-checked 2026-08-20: still not published (dep.nj.gov and eregulations.com direct WebFetch both blocked via this environment's egress policy tonight, same as 2026-08-19; WebSearch found only 2025-26 digest/regs files and the unrelated Migratory Game Bird Population Status page, no 2026-2027 upland regs digest or segment PDF).
Confirmed absence of any wild population or survey -- chukar is entirely NJDFW-stocked (part of the same ~50,000-pheasant/~5,200-quail annual stocking program across 23 WMAs plus the Delaware Water Gap NRA and Fort Dix, funded by the Pheasant & Quail Stamp at over $500,000/year), put-and-take with no wild-population survey infrastructure.