Actually not, digressing from the main topic of discussion on this thread for a moment but this is a bad analogy, at least in the state where I live.
Here the revenue from license fees, which is $28 for a resident, goes directly into the Fish and Game Dept, apart from the general fund. Those fees are used, among other things, to man and maintain the hatchery facilities that grow and release close to one million fish per year in the spring and fall stocking programs.
It also goes into maintaining open public lands as state wildlife management areas, WMAs, with fishing and hunting ROWs, right of ways that allow public access and keeps many miles of waterways open to fisherman that might otherwise be closed by private interests.
The $28 is really pretty good bang for the buck and benefits more than just hunters and fishermen, it serves the common good as well for it enables anyone use of these spaces proving out the old adage that:
'a river that has no fishermen has no friends'.