1000 sounds like a joke to me, I agree with wolf killer, should have been 10,000 at least. If this was just some dumba$$ who was hungry or something then he should have poached a cow--then $1,000 might seem more reasonable to me. I'm glad he also gets to spend some time as a guest of the state, however, instead he should have to pick-up trash along the road or something for about a year or more. The fine implemented by CA makes it seem like that state is not really serious about punishing poachers