This wasn’t hunting, it was poaching.
Poaching is mostly hunting which has been made illegal.
There generally are good reasons to make some sorts of hunting illegal, mostly because they will be used to over harvest and deplete the resource.
I agree, poaching is illegal, it can harm the resource.
This case of poaching is being used to smear hunting bears with bait or with dogs.
I recall a Wildlife Manager in the Wisconsin DNR, when I asked him what he thought about deer poaching in Wisconsin. This was about 1979, as I recall. It was a private conversation. I believe I had his confidence.
He said: "If it wasn't for the poachers, the deer population would be out of control."
I did not record it (no cell phones at the time, and no digital recorders or digital cameras) but I thought it was revealing.