finally the loughs agency is an agency of the foyle carlingford and irish lights commission established under the britishirish agreement act to provide the effective conservation management promotion and development of the fisheries and marine resources of the foyle and carlingford areas these are the recommendations of the international council for the exploitation of the sea and the north atlantic salmon conservation organisation nasco in the government reaffirmed its commitment to manage the wild salmon fishery in line with the scientific advice from onwards in the interests of conservation of wild stocks and the following year essentially closed the irish mixed stock salmon fishery principally drift nets and some coastal draft nets