AnglingRiverwatchMarine TourismCorporateConservation & Protection

• About Riverwatch
• Visitor Centre
  • Visitor Information
  • Virtual Aquarium
  • The PODs
  • POD 1
  • POD 2
  • POD 3
  • POD 4
• Outreach & Education
• Resources
• Focus Of The Month
• Image Gallery
• News
• Links
• Riverwatch FAQ

The job of the Loughs Agency is to manage the sea loughs and their catchments. The fishery part of this work is complicated and challenging. Informed decisions have to be made to make sure that fishermen can take a fair harvest and that enough fish survive to replenish the stock. These decisions are taken in the knowledge that in other parts of the world many fish species, including Atlantic salmon, are becoming endangered. And, of course, the decisions and the regulations have to be enforced.

                                    

Riverwatch 4 - Sustaining The Harvest

5 ½ mins
Salmon have been returning to the Foyle System to breed every year for many thousands of years. Any break in this cycle would be catastrophic. Foyle Salmon would soon become extinct as salmon have in many other great river systems in Europe and North America. Find out how nature and Loughs Agency ensure that such a break does not happen.

Riverwatch 5 - Diminishing Rreturns

3 mins
Discover the status of Atlantic salmon in North America and Europe and the problems facing the salmon in the 21st Century.

Riverwatch 11 - Fishery Protection

4 mins
Fishery protection has long been an important part of the Loughs Agency's responsibilities. Follow the Riverwatchers on patrol on the River Foyle.