One things for sure, the organisation that takes millions from anglers every year wont help anglers, indeed it seems that angling comes well down their list of priorities, below is taken from the Daily Telegraph.
A spokesman for the Environment Agency defended otters, saying that waters dominated by large coarse fish did not make for a healthy eco-system.
He said: "The Environment Agency does not see the return of the otter as a cause for alarm or a major threat to fish numbers. If you look at rivers that never lost otters like in Scotland, they have healthy fish populations containing a good age range of fish. It has not resulted in fish being 'wiped out'.
"Large specimen fish tend to dominate rivers, which is not a healthy state for a river. You need diversity in age, not just big fish. This wouldn't have occurred in the past when otters were more numerous and would have eaten some of the larger fish.
"Specimen fish aren't immortal. As much as anglers love to fish for large barbel, and even given them names, sooner or later they will die from disease, in a flood event or be eaten by an otter or other predator.
"Otters also eat 'pest' species such as the signal crayfish, an invasive species that has caused a crash in numbers of our native white-clawed crayfish."