The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a fish processor for illegally purchasing and selling fish caught under the authority of an Indian food fish licence. The fish had been caught and sold to the processor by members of the Sheshaht and Opetchesaht bands in British Columbia. The processor claimed the sellers had an Aboriginal right to catch and sell the fish and argued that the prohibitions on sale were constitutionally inapplicable. The Court applied the Van der Peet test and decided that the processor had not proven that exchange of fish for money or other goods had been an integral part of the distinctive cultures of the Indigenous Peoples in question at the time of contact with Europeans.