First of all i'm not FN or am I here to ask for anyones respect. What I care about, are people making comments about FN when they have no clue whats really going on. You say the FN are stupid for throwing the fish back in the water? But you know what? It brings back nutrients into the water. Like Rodney said in his previous post, commmercial fisheries are smart or how you call good marketing/business skills because they keep the fish and process it into cheap canned fish. Therefore I am curious why you care about the FN throwing the fish back, is it because of the environment or are you just bitter that FN can do something that you can't?
Sportfishing has regulations because we do it for a sport where the FN do it for work. So instead of comparing the FN with the many snaggers/flossers that exist in sportfishing, compare them with the commercial fishermen.
I was also curious what I can learn, if i stop calling people "ignorant"? I'd rather not learn to be judgemental on other cultures just because they are different from us. Also its hard for me to take advice from someone that said, "FN (indians) were settlers, how did we get to the point of suggesting they had legal rights to the land? Just because they lived in a small part of the land, how does that make it all theirs?" i thought only some typical "Americans" could say something like that and not someone from Canada, especially someone that stated that they had post secondary education. But to answer your questions, they did have legal rights to their land, and just because they dont use a similar land title system doesn't mean it isn't valid.