The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources says that the devastating increase in brown fur seals currently threatens the existence of fish stocks.

The committee raised this concern during a consultative meeting with stakeholders on the motion on the devastating increase in seal population on fish stocks in Namibia held at Walvis Bay. The Cape fur seal colony on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia is the biggest on the African coast, with a population of about 1.5 million seals eating about two million metric tonnes of fish per year.