You lament the high cost of moose and other big games hunts, and blame the govt for it. Obviously there are fees/taxes associated with it. That has very little to do with the high cost of those hunts. More hunters than there are tags, pretty simple. As long as rich guys are willing to pay $20 for a bull elk hunt(for example), and they sell every one of them, the cost is not going down.
A close personal friend who owned a BC hunting concession for many years, had ~30 grizzly hunts a year to sell to clients. Right before he sold the concession due to declining quotas, the province had lowered it to 2. They similarly lowered everyone else’s quotas. How expensive do you think those few grizzly hunts cost? Had nothing to do with taxes. BC has banned grizzly hunts province wide now. What do you think that’s done to grizzly hunt prices everywhere else they can be hunted. You guessed it, skyrocketing. Nothing to do with taxes. I hunt black bear with that same outfitter every year. Tag price is nearly the same as it is for the brown bear, but the hunt is cheap by comparison. Does the govt just say fuck it, we don’t care about 30,000 black bear hunters, but we’re really gonna stick it to those moose hunters. No, sorry. Simple economics is the answer.