evidence: In 1662 Charles II (the then King of England) granted the waters, the fisheries and the sea-bed of Lough Foyle to The Irish Society by way of Royal Charter. This was in part payment for the substantial role The Irish Society played in building the Walls of Derry between 1613 and 1619. The Irish Society was a consortium of companies from the City of London set up in 1613 to colonise County Londonderry during the Plantation of Ulster. Lough Foyle remained in the ownership of the Irish Society from 1662 until 1952 when it sold the Lough's fishery to the Irish Government and the Northern Ireland Fishery Board for the sum of one hundred thousand pounds. [...] In 1997 the Good Friday Agreement changed the role of administration of Lough Foyle from the Foyle Fisheries to the Loughs Agency. It also introduced new legislation called Foyle And Carlingford Fisheries Act 2007 as an upgrade on the 1952 Foyle Fisheries act.