To improve the situation, I'll use the clam digging as an example in our territory. We've been pushing DFO to open up other areas for clam digging, because we understand that places are getting over dug. There was a time when it was managed in a different manner consistent with who we are. The digging practice has evolved and so forth. We need to have that understood and have that put in place, so we can see the benefits of these stocks bouncing back again.
What we've been doing as the Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw people to preserve our stocks is that we haven't fished them for a very long time. We've watched the steady decline in the Broughton Archipelago. We attribute this to the open net-cage fish farms. We're watching the government expand.... The previous government, against all good sense, expanded these fish farms.
Without the resources to participate, we're hamstrung to begin with. I find it rather fascinating to talk about bureaucracy getting in the way of us trying to do good work when the government had focused on streamlining and harmonizing everything so industry could do their work, but we're not doing the same when we want to protect the habitat.