We put it in the same context as just about all of the aboriginal treaty or aboriginal rights litigation that the Supreme Court puts out. These are classified communal rights, meaning that they accrue to a community of first nations. In this case, the community would be the Mi'kmaq, but they're practised, of course, by individuals.
I'll equate it to the moose hunt, which I do a lot of work with. When an individual Mi'kmaq person goes and hunts moose, they're not an employee of a band, and they're not doing so based on that communal idea. They're hunting for themselves and their family. However, the community, being the Mi'kmaq, have the ability to instruct or pass their own rules or laws that say which way the hunt will take place.
With moose in Nova Scotia, the Mi'kmaq have decided that no one should be hunting moose between January 1 and August 15. That's not written in provincial regulations. It's not stipulated anywhere, but the community has said this is the way that we think we should do it. The harvesters, when they go out to hunt as individuals or as family members, follow the communal instructions on the way it should be.
I see fishing being handled the same way, which is communities develop rules, guidelines and understandings on the way it's going to happen and work with individuals who go out to do the actual harvesting, the way that they always would have done.