Originally Posted by Mike D

That's because true sportsmen realize they are maintaining a balance in nature.

Hunters/fishers/trappers learned from the example of the bison near eradication.

The whole-sale slaughter practiced by these types of poachers is neither "sport" or supply.

I'm not big on hunting, although I enjoyed it when I was younger, but I do enjoy fishing nowadays and it puts a crimp in my line when I see a stringer with 40 or so fish on it which I know the "fisherman" is never going to clean and eat.