fairly low-level matters. It appears that the forum was brought into existence after the demise of the FCB so that the Department could hold its hands up and say, "We are consulting the stakeholders." In point of fact, there is not any movement there at all. And later on, [added emphasis again] Mr Haughey: The United Kingdom is a member of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) [added link].  It was formed to protect the salmon on the high seas.  All of the countries of the north Atlantic are members of it, and Northern Ireland attends under the banner of the European Union.  That organisation has protocols to protect the salmon, one of which is that there should be no mixed stock netting, as it is called, which is where salmon from different rivers are netted as a group.  That endangers the stocks of salmon.  That has become quite an issue in recent years because stocks are continually falling and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has advised for a number of years that netting of mixed stock should not be happening.  NASCO has adopted that, and netting of mixed stock should not be happening at all. Unfortunately, DCAL has refused to stop the mixed stock netting.  That is in breach of the protocols of NASCO, but, more seriously, in the past three or four years, the permission by DCAL of mixed stock netting at sea for salmon is now in breach of the habitats