Major environmental parameters, such as sea surface temperatures, dissolved oxygen, up-welling and primary productivity of the water have remained within average levels for the past four years.  There were no strong anomalies in the marine environment during 2006 and scientists from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources are of the opinion that conditions remain generally favour-able for spawning, survival and growth of fish stocks.
Juvenile hake is, however, subjected to immense predation pressure.  Seals feed on the earlier pelagic life stage and those that survive, grow bigger and advance to deeper waters become a subject of predation to larger hake.  This high predation is a cause to the below average recruitment of hake in the current favourable environmental conditions. 
The abundance of jelly fish has also become noticeable in our waters.  They cause further competition on food and space for pelagic species and larval stages of demersal species, such as hake.  The hake stock therefore, needs to be slowly rebuilt to sustainable levels.
The monkfish species currently represents one of the more healthy stocks estimated to be around the maximum sustainable yield.
As for orange roughy, stock surveys have not detected re-aggregation on the main fishing
areas or an increase in spawning activity and this calls a precautionary TAC.
Against this background, Cabinet approved TACs as per Section 38 of the Marine Resource Act (Act 27 of 2000) as follows:
Hake:    130 000 tonnes
Monk fish:    9 500 tonnes
Orange roughy:       900 tonnes
Cabinet approved the 2007/2008 fishing season for hake, monkfish and orange roughy from 1 May 2007 to 30 April 2008.
Cabinet further instructed the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Advisory Council to work on new measures to address demarcation and closure of some areas considered to be sanctuaries or nursery habitat for juvenile hake. They should also assess the impact of long liners on the spawning hake component of the stock and look at the possibility of changing the mesh size for hake trawlers from the current 110 mm to 120 or 130 mm, a move that can lead to the reduction of numbers of small hake landed.
If the whole TAC is caught in each fishery as indicated above, revenue of N$54.45 million will be generated for the Government.