This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
New Jersey has no open hunting season for mourning dove at all — confirmed by NJDEP's own 2025-26 digest, which lists mourning dove under a "Closed / None" row alongside swans, harlequin duck, king rail and sandhill crane, and by the 2026-27 proposed-seasons document (Mar. 5, 2026), which contains no dove section whatsoever. This is a long-standing, structural non-game classification (per secondary reporting, in place for decades, reflecting NJ treating mourning dove as non-game rather than a huntable species), not a year-to-year dates gap — unlike most neighboring Mid-Atlantic states (PA, DE, MD) which do have active dove seasons.
New Jersey has no mourning dove hunting season at all -- confirmed via NJDEP's 2025-26 digest (a “Closed / None” row) and the 2026-27 proposed-seasons document (no dove section at all), a long-standing structural non-game classification. Distinct from plan 3's separate NJDEP-regs-digest research (season/regulation dates), investigated independently here on its own merits per the season-outlook question: NJDFW does band doves at Great Swamp NWR (since 2009) specifically to build baseline population data in case a season is ever introduced -- a genuine “monitoring in anticipation of a season” program, but it produces no forecast/outlook document, and there is currently no season for a forecast to serve. Closed no_program on the strength of the structural season absence, with the banding effort noted as color.