It is difficult to take either side really. It is more the financial gain of licensing and control of individual access to promote corporate consumption than it is control of natural resources that laws like this are in place. While we do have to control the consumption of natural resources to protect the environment, it is mostly corporations that threaten to rapid loss of resources than individuals catching or hunting for self preservation.

Newfoundland has had this debate many times with fish stocks, seal hunts and moose hunting. Individuals who hunt or fish for self supply have never been a threat to the resources and yet the boundaries for access to local stocks are constantly limited to locals while the access being granted to corporate fishing trawlers to foreign countries and tourist hunters coming in for sport game is bountiful. I think we are screaming at the wrong people.