Ake, the US, and especially Alaska, has the problem of foriegn game killers as well as the UK. We've had them for years -- the Russian nobility, the British nobility, the French, and many others -- shot the abundant game in the US throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. And some still come, especially (as I noted) to Alaska.

I believe that it's illegal here to knowingly take a white deer or other albino animal; I'm certain that it is in the States I've hunted in the past. Moreover, you don't take the biggest stag in the lot -- first of all, it's the does that have the babies, and secondly, you let it live to improve the breed.

Catch-and-release fishing is quite "big" here, especially with fly fishers. Some fish -- sturgeon on the Snake River, for instance -- cannot even be taken from the water; you have to release them without lifting them from the river.

Hunters here are very often very knowledgable about the environment, ecology, animal populations, and other related information. Check out the websites for such groups as Ducks Unlimited and you can see that hunters often put their money where their mouth is -- EVEN when they can't hunt the area or the species.

To tell the truth, I wish that it were necessary for everyone to grow, gather, or hunt what they eat. But the human race tried that a little while back, I seem to remember....

I don't think that I'd hunt if I lived in Britain. Too many people in too little land for safety.