Who owns the animals?
The state?
Land owners?
All citizens?
Nobody?
I’ll stop fishing when they pry that fish from my dead hands
In the states I’m familiar with, which is only a couple, they belong to the state. Though the state would say they belong to the citizens of the state, collectively, described as the People of the State of =====. Regulated on behalf of the People by the State. Not necessarily a bad thing, imo.
The state. That’s why they can fine or jail you for improper taking.
Who owns the animals?
The state?
Land owners?
All citizens?
Nobody?
In Europe, the landowners.
In the U.S., the state (except for high fence game farms).
When the hunter bags the game (reduces it to possession) it become his property, in the United States.
GOD owns them; and if HE didn’t want me to kill them for food HE wouldn’t have made them taste so good.