I've read the report a few times, it's got some good ideas.
I think that the Angling Trust has helped angling by getting a slight relaxation in the laws relating to the control of cormorants. The appointment of three cormorant management advisers should eventually lead to clubs making successful applications to control cormorants.
As for control of otters, I'm less optimistic. They are a protected species, indigenous to the UK and they've recovered after a collapse in otter numbers in the forties and fifties. Those who propose culling are unrealistic -public opinion would never allow culling to take place. Anglers can protect smaller stillwaters by erecting fencing, but it may be too expensive to do this on bigger stillwaters. But we can't fence off rivers, which is why fishing in some rivers may decline further.
We expect too much from the Angling Trust. It has done as much as it can to highlight the problem of predation. It's up to angling clubs to renew their attempts to get licences to control cormorants.