No person shall hunt for, pursue, capture, kill, possess, injure or destroy any female English or ring-necked pheasant under a penalty of $20.00 for each female pheasant hunted for, pursued, captured, killed, possessed, injured or destroyed.
This section shall not apply to a licensee operating under the terms of sections 23:3-28 to 23:3-39 of this Title, or to any other person or persons authorized by said licensee to shoot female pheasants on the lands described in such license.
N.J.S. § 23:4-8