So, what is your stance on poaching?
Poaching has traditionally been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, 
Yes, but what is your opinion of it? What are your thoughts on the pracitce?
poaching was performed by impoverished peasants for subsistence purposes and a supplement for meager diets.
That is some interesting history, but I was asking about your own personal opinion on the subject. Do you think poaching should be illegal?
No, because it hurts so much
No to it being illegal means you think it should be legal... or have I misunderstood you?
Poaching
Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
According to "Encyclopædia Britannica", poaching was performed by impoverished peasants for subsistence purposes and a supplement for meager diets. Poaching was as well set against the hunting privileges of nobility and territorial rulers. By contrast, stealing domestic animals (as in cattle raiding, for example) classifies as theft, not as poaching.
Since the 1980s, the term "poaching" has also referred to the
Species affected by poaching
Species affected by poaching refers both to the effects of illegal hunting and fishing or capturing of wild animals on certain species, and, in a recent usage, the illegal harvesting of wild plant species. The article provides an overview of species currently endangered or impaired by poaching in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, and South-East Asia.
In North America.
In the early 1990s, crimes against wildlife were rampant in certain parts of the United States, and poaching equaled or exceeded