I am not a fan of the AT getting so involved in fishing crime; was it ever their job; who asked them to do it?. It seems its becoming their main thing; self appointed law. My recent experience of private companies and so called officers being hired to take on the law was pretty bad, they were so inept at it I did not have to pay the fine in the end, I took them on and would have made them look so bad in court and they knew it; because I made sure they knew it. Just as well for me but that's not the point. I think these things are best left to the police and the Gov/EA not private organizations.
Serious crimes are on the up, the police can work out how much time they want to devote to angling crime, crackdown weeks a couple of times a year maybe, they are best placed to work it out, not us or the AT. I am not surprised these reported angling crimes get a low response/prosecution rate. I bet privately the police wish the AT and such like would not interfere and let them deal with it in their own time and methods which would probably get better results..
Its not hard to picture, they have some serious burglaries/murders to deal with and in the middle of it they get 10 phone calls that someone suspects someone does not have a license or caught a roach out of season, that gets stuck at the back of long que I bet and totally understandable.