Sincere question - how does one "overhunt"?

If I were to use a huge trawler with a big net to catch hundreds of fish I would call that overfishing. But is that even fishing?

Thwres nuance between artisanal and industrial, and both get caught with the same word

It’s simple… harvesting more than the population you are hunting can sustain. A lot of animals outside or deer are regulated through a lottery system, if everyone who wanted to hunt a bear, mountain goat, or cougar did every year, we’d have none.

One issue with confusing laws with ethics: We forget that lines are best drawn between doing harm and not.

We have deer seasons for a reason. Lots of times you can only hunt the male bucks to keep populations in check. People have decimated populations. Look at the Goliath Grouper ban in Florida and how the species has recovered.