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I agree that nobody should be eating anything they would not prepare - I don't hunt because I don't like camping and am a terrible shot, would be a menace with a gun. But I have gently raised chickens, and am at ease with eating meat, and DO want to know what I am eating. So hunted fowl and grass fed ranch animals are great, , I try to eat less meat humanely raised. We are animals and omnivores and we belong to this cycle of life.
People who want meat as a sanitized experience, who don't want to think about what they are eating, that does bother me. Vegans don't bother me, that makes sense. Hunters (for food) don't bother me. Fishing kinda does, because the oceans are so overfished, we need to lay off awhile.
Anyway - I do think it's ethical, a deer is going to be somebody's food and a quick death is gentler than what a different predator would do.
I wouldn't worry too much about sportfishing man. It's essentially impossible for us to cause a problem with rods and reels, even long line for the subsistence folks is essentially negligible compare to factory bottom trawlers. Just the bycatch from one set on those things has a bigger impact than a thousand sportfishers hitting their limits all season. Really all the points people have made ITT about hunting vs factory farming apply here pretty well too