It's a bit rich to criticise those who have spearheaded a campaign for the good of all of us. From my reading of the summary of responses 1500 anglers replied against 350 commercial responses, there are unknowns etc. that add to a total of approx 2800.
There are 10,000 mmbers on this site, half the posts are sea fishing related so approx 5000 members if each and everyone had written a letter thats 3 times the response, politicians don't work on logic they work on numbers and votes. It's little wonder that the angling stakeholders don't get much of look in if only 1500 of the 2,000,000 anglers (that's less than 0.1%) could be @rsed to express an opinion. The figures are actually worse than that because those who bothered tended to recruit friends family etc.
Don't get p'd off with the guys who did the hard work, look in the mirror and ask what exactly you did to help. I hope most who read this did something sadly the figures don't stack up though.
If you care do something constructive.
Thanks for all you've done Tom Leon Steve. Don't give up guys.
Angry of Oswestry