First poaching is a crime, but there are degrees of severity to each crime ie. man one, volutary manslouhter etc.
Steeling is a crime, but there is huge differnce of steeling your neighour' s apples and robing someone at gun or knife point.
We can just hope that the game wardens exercise their authority with fairnes to the law obiding hunters, land owners and the poachers as well.
And to be fair the min. and max penalties should be well publicized, and I don' t think their are, so very often the offender is not even awere of the severity of his crime and possible penalty.