evidence: In the same year as the purchase of the salmon fishery of Lough Foyle from the Hon Irish Society the waters, fisheries and the sea-bed of Lough Foyle reverted in ownership to the Crown Estates........." The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the territories of England, Wales and Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it "the sovereign's public estate". [...] The attempted "takeover" of traditional fishing rights of Lough Foyle by the Irish / UK Governments and the Loughs Agency, when it is known that the Crown Estate never looked to withdraw or remove the same traditional rights to begin with, is difficult to understand. Since 2007 when the Governments and the Loughs Agency attempted to bring in a licensing regime and the Crown Estates would not allow them there has been absolute stalemate. Is it a question of the Crown Estates flexing its ownership muscle and showing where the true power resides in relation to Lough Foyle? Or is it because they do not like the fact that they were ignored and taken for granted when the 2007 Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries Act was being compiled? For whatever reason the process has ground to a halt and will only start again when the Crown Estates is good and ready, if ever and on their terms and conditions