In Catalonia, those "large vermin" are mostly stags and boars, as the extermination of their predators (mostly wolves and bears) have lead them to overpulations. Whnile government endorsed hunts are organized, those are not professionals, but amateurs with hunting as a hobby.
It's a mix. Many pest species tend to have wide open seasons, few limitations on limits, etc. For example, you can hunt feral pigs at night (most sports oriented hunting is well regulated), and shoot as many as you like. So, there's certainly an organic effect of sportsmen randomly culling the population as it suits them.
However, if a farmer or whatever is have a specific problem, they'll call in professionals to deal with it. They also may not like random strangers running around on their land.
Are those professional hunters, or hunting is just a part (maybe an important one) of their profession (e.g. I guess for a warden this is "only" a duty among the various ones in their profesional roles)?
Are the professionals "full time" hunters? Who can say. But that doesn't make them any less professional. Clearly a game warden has other duties, but hunting can be one of them. They're prepared and authorized to capture or kill animals as part of their duties, in contrast to a hunter who is out hunting during "wolf" season.
I'm afraid I don't know what are you talking about here....
The
Legacy of Heorot is a novel by Niven, Pournelle, and Barnes about a new colony and their issues with the local fauna.
I may be wrong, but I guess they choose a life different to what we use to see high tech one...
I'll let you talk to
@Timerover51 about that.
I guess you mean the hunters of seal furs...
If so, them, along with fishermen and whale hunters would be the closer to professional hunters we can have...
There's also poaching, so you shouldn't disregard that.
Another "example" of professional hunting in fiction is the second Jurassic Park, and how that expedition was organized, the ship they used, the large, specialized cages and vehicles. Not all species are the size of large dogs.
But do any of those collect trophies? I know many a fisherman has a "trophy fish" (or several ones), but I guess those are precisely the non professional people...
And (probably more relevant to the thread), while fishermen and whale hunters need specialized ships (so worth a class, or more than one), they use them to h unt, while the Safari Ship will not be used for it, being more a mobile base uninvolved with the hunt itself.
Arguably a hunter doesn't need a ship at all. At best they might use, what, an air/raft, or something of that nature.
But you can see an outfit, especially one that works frontier colony worlds, with a specialized ship. Built in lab, advanced medical facilities "Remember when Bob got to close to that Rakthar! Boy those prosthetics get better every year.", cartography section, etc.
