In simple terms, we were here first. We never gave up these rights and this is why Canada put up such a fight against Donald Marshall. The Maritime Treaties contain or surrender extinguishment provisions. They insist on a relationship based upon its own supremacy and dominance. That is why it insists on extinguishment even though the United Nations have condemned Canada's use of extinguishment against aboriginal peoples as a violation of Canada's obligations under international law of human rights.
Conservation is an embarrassment for Canada.
The DFO is famous the world over for its failure to protect the cod fishery until it was too late. It's also famous for political interference standing in place of legal responsibility. Canada is a very poor and incompetent guardian of the environment and its natural resources. We need only look at the sad condition of Canadian forests and rivers to find out about conservation. The fact is that there are about three million DFO officially-sanctioned lobster traps in the water of the Atlantic fishery.