Additional sector guidance – Fishing

This guidance is a draft for consultation with market participants and other interested stakeholders. The Taskforce welcomes feedback provided via the TNFD website by 4 April 2025. The Taskforce will review all feedback and will issue the final sector guidance in June 2025.

This draft guidance supplements the TNFD’s Guidance on assessing nature-related issues — the LEAP approach — and should be read in conjunction with that guidance.

The TNFD recognises that there can be significant differences across sectors for corporates applying the LEAP approach. It has published this guidance to help organisations with business models or value chains in the Fishing sector to apply the LEAP approach to their context and to disclose sector-specific metrics in line with the TNFD recommendations.

This guidance covers the SICS® industry: Meat, poultry & dairy.

Key focus area
  • Draft sector-specific guidance on how to apply the LEAP approach in the fishing sector.
  • A list of proposed sector disclosure metrics for organisations in the fishing sector
  • Dependency and impact matrices to identify potential material dependencies and impacts on nature for the fishing sector.
  • Illustrative lists of environmental assets, ecosystem services, impact drivers, risks and opportunities, and response actions in the fishing sector
Key outcomes
  • Understand how to apply the LEAP approach for an organisation in the fishing sector
  • Understand and provide feedback on the draft guidance and metrics proposed by the TNFD for the fishing sector
  • Gain insights on the nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities commonly facing organisations in the fishing sector
Acknowledgements

The development of this sector guidance has been led by a working group of TNFD Taskforce members with extensive input from both science partners and market participants over the past year, including through focus groups and written feedback. The Taskforce is grateful for the input received from a wide range of individuals and organisations and extends particular thanks to The FAIRR Initiative, Planet Tracker, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, Karen Evans – Head of Ocean Science Section, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO – and blue economy expert Klaas de Vos – Ocean Fox Advisory – who provided sector-specific expertise to help develop this guidance.