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Natives argue that they, the natives, have the right to set their own regulations.
The dispute at Burnt Church New Brunswick can be look at in two ways. It may be seen as a purely local dispute over the right to catch lobsters. Whether one group, aboriginal fishermen, have the right to catch lobsters under a set of rules that differ from the rules that other local fishermen have to catch lobsters. And from these questions one other emerges. Burnt Church is about lobster, native and local fishermen, but it is also a flash point for the question of native rights generally.