From: usenet@delete.this.baradel.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Kevin J. Cheek   
    writes   
   >   
   >Shrug. That's just my perspective. Maybe there's not such a strong   
   >dichotomy. OTOH, I don't look for anyone to change anyone's mind.   
   >   
   >I don't think anyone cares for poaching.   
      
   Well, now there's poaching and poaching... Acquiring a brace of the rich   
   landowner's grouse or catching the odd rabbit with lurchers is a   
   different kettle of fish to killing the few surviving members of an   
   endangered species, though both are poaching.   
      
   >Some hunters over here will   
   >try to bend the rules, so to speak (and some fishermen, too), on   
   >issues such as limits. Then there's the baited field issues. Of   
   >course, the game wardens are aware of this, and like to drop by to say   
   >howdy at big dove hunts. But out and out poaching is generally held as   
   >reprehensible.   
   >   
   >There's other issues that crop up. Locally it's frowned upon to waste   
   >meat. I think most states have laws requiring an effort be made to   
   >retrieve game.   
   >   
   In the UK of course, the main controversy over hunting regards the   
   killing of foxes by dogs. This is one example of what I mean by finding   
   some practices acceptable and some not. The fox is either trophy or dead   
   vermin, depending on how the hunter regards it -- perhaps both? But   
   whilst I gradually settled on being opposed to hunting foxes on   
   horseback with a pack of hounds for the fun of it, I have no objection   
   to our local farmers taking their shotguns and a few dogs to flush out   
   and shoot the foxes on the land where their lambs will soon be   
   frolicking.   
      
   >There's probably other areas of agreement. One of the reasons we have   
   >seasons and ended market hunting was to preserve species.   
   >Unfortunately that was after the passing of the Passenger Pigeon.   
   >   
   Deer and grouse hunting (and fishing) is done according to seasons to   
   ensure the survival of the creatures and the continued income from the   
   shooting rights. Ditto fishing, which is licensed.   
      
   I'm sure things are completely different in the US where you have more   
   wilderness and more large creatures that are worth eating.   
      
   Helen   
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