I have no problem what-so-ever with anyone taking any animal's life in order to eat it.
Jonathan, that is your view and I eat meat myself but a lot of people would disagree with that.
A scenario for you; You are fishing on a lovely river in beautiful surroundings, along comes a guy, starts fishing, catches a lovely carp, 20lbs say, then smashes its skull in and puts it in a black bin liner. Then a few moments later he catches a 12lb barbel and does the same thing.Because he can and it's within the law. Would you feel comfortable with that? Could you accept that and carry on as if nothing happened? Because I bloody well couldn't! Are we saying that behaviour is acceptable because there is no law against it? To my way of thinking there is no place for that in this day and age.
I still think that by reserving the right to take fish you are doing simply that, appeasing the antis, but it won't, they will want more and more, where will it end? Like Germany where it's an offence to actually put fish back? If that happens here I for one will give up angling altogether.
Fishing is a sport, not a cull.