How do you define fair chase hunting?
Well the generally accepted meaning of the term is hunting animals that are truely wild and not in a pen. Some would expand that to say no high fence at all. But I agree with Art that a high fence around 1000's of acres is a totally different situation than one around 30 acres.
I do not advocate making high fence hunting illegal anymore than I'd want it made illegal for a farmer to slaughter a domesticated pig or chicken in a pen on his farm. I simply have a problem with some of what I see on some of these TV shows being called hunting. Call it what it is, "paying to be the one who gets to slaughter a prize animal raised in captivity for that specific purpose". Cause that's what it is at some of these places.
How can you tell when what you are doing has ceased to be hunting? Here are a few tips.
1. If you see a huge buck but cannot shoot him, not because you didn't have a clear shot, but because you can't afford the trophy fee on one his size, you may not actually be hunting.
2. If you are in North America and see a big buck you want to shoot but have to wait for a orynx, a kudu and a nubian ibex to get out of the way before you have a clear shot, you might not actually be hunting.
3. If the outfitter insists that a guide sit in the shooting house with you to make sure you shoot the "right" buck, you might not actually be hunting.
4. If the ranch you are own has every years shed antlers from every buck, a yearly photgraph of every buck, and has named every shooter buck on the place, you might not actually be hunting.
5. And finally, if you pull in to the lodges parking lot and spot Alan Warren AKA: "the Chevy Sportsman", let all doubt fade from your mind, no type of real hunting has ever occured at that place or he would not be there.