Before Oklahoma issues a contract commercial fishing license for commercial gizzard-shad harvest, the applicant files a $1,000 surety bond with the Department of Wildlife Conservation. At a flat 3%, a $1,000 bond lands at our $275 minimum, with no credit check.
















These small wildlife bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date — that is the application. No financials, no credit check section.
Small fixed-amount wildlife bonds are among the bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your contract commercial fishing license for gizzard shad. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$1,000 bond × 3% = $30, which is below our $275 minimum, so the price is $275, one-time per term.
Oklahoma lets licensees harvest gizzard shad — a baitfish — commercially under a contract commercial fishing license from the Department of Wildlife Conservation. Before that license issues, the applicant must file a $1,000 surety bond.
The bond is subject to forfeiture upon conviction of a violation of the shad-harvest rules or the underlying commercial fishing statutes (29 O.S. §§4-103 and 6-201). It backs your promise to harvest shad within the rules.
It is not insurance for you — if the bond is forfeited, you bear the loss. Harvesters who follow the rules treat the $1,000 bond as a license formality. We issue it at a flat 3% (the $275 minimum) with no credit check.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued the same sitting. Free until issued.