I'm sorry I was a little heavy on the legal in the introduction, but we had to lay the ground that we're absolutely open to co-management and speaking about options. We've been involved initially with resource managers from DFO to look at other options for food for our communities, and for the most part those discussions have not led to many other options. We've repeatedly said that for many of our people access to food is the priority, but we respect conservation. We absolutely work with that in mind. We have closed our fishery. We've reduced our fishery.
I guess to put it in perspective, our trap and net fisheries probably would catch in the area of 1,000 fish per year, and that's how many members we have. We have a little over 200 households. The report that I spoke to briefly—and I'll share that, with the food nutrition study that was done—says that our people's diet requires traditional food. We have issues around diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
When this study was done with the University of Ottawa, based on a proper sampling, it came out that our people get one tablespoon of traditional food per day. That's what it works out to, based on the access we have to fish and game currently. That massively contributes to health issues.
It's not for lack of trying to get to a table and to look at other options, to look at co-management. We've been in a bilateral process with the federal and provincial governments for a number of years. DFO is just starting to come to the table with a mandate to talk about these urgent issues, about how the Marshall decision is implemented.
It has been 15, 16, or 17 years since the Marshall Supreme Court case spoke of moderate livelihood. Our inland communities have not fared well with that process.
We have a community of 200 households. We have four commercial lobster licences that provide work for maybe a dozen of our members. We have 40% food insecurity in our community. We have 200-plus households. We have 80 households that are wondering constantly where their next meal is coming from. So that is of massive, huge concern to us.