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• Lack of anglers’ involvement in the running of clubs and societies, sitting on Consultatives and RFACS and helping to fund the sport.
   
• Continuing pollution of waterways – join the ACA.
   
• Increasing water eutrophication from phosphates, nitrates and other farmland “wastes”.
   
• Endocrine disrupters introduced to water tables from sewage treatment plants and domestic and industrial waste.
   
• Increased water abstraction and declining water quality.
   
• Continuing calls for 'channel improvement' and investment in land drainage to reduce flooding and allow building on flood plains.
   
• Water transfer schemes between river catchments.
   
• Increased navigation on inland waterways, particularly with unsuitable craft.
   
• Increasing fish predation by cormorants, otters and signal crayfish.
   
• An escalation in fish kills and disease, partly through the relaxation of import controls.
   
• Increasing illegal fish movements and fish stealing.
   
• Litter problems from anglers and non-anglers alike.
   
• Increasing anti-angling activity and propaganda.
   
• Waters regularly being lost to angling.
   
• Political infighting between angling groups.
   
• The lack of funding from central government to match that available to other sports.