I don’t know much about the show or controversy. Considering conservation laws and such, I’m thinking the hunter would have to have a valid permit to hunt, and possibly have to obey local laws regarding tagging their harvest. No matter if someone’s using firearms or primitive weapons, they’ve got to be within local laws or risk meeting the local conservation officers…
For the US, every state has their own rules, as well as individual sites on what you can do, how you can do it. If you’re on a Federal site, usually it’s a mix of state rules and Federal rules.
Part of the responsibility is to know those rules and follow them. Yea, it can get confusing and hard, but that’s part of the deal, so gotta be done. Much better to pick up the phone and call or shoot an email and ask questions, than to not and get a visit…
In the US, conservation officers don’t mess around. They definitely can be on the unpleasant end of FAFO.