Fishing gear marked with port and vessel identification
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports the number and share of fishing-gear items marked with port and vessel identification details, supporting fishing-gear traceability and accountability.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Organisation's disclosed reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report the number of marked fishing-gear items and the percentage of total fishing gear represented by those items.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Fishing-gear traceability and accountability
- Controlled domain
- Supply chain and value chain
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Fishing gear within the organisation's disclosed fishing-related operational and/or value-chain reporting boundary.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- TNFD additional sector guidance for fishing, fish trading, fish processing and retail, p. 77, metric table, C2.3 sector guidance. | Extracted evidence: organisations reporting C2.3 disclose the number and proportion of fishing gear marked with port ID and vessel ID details, using an IMO vessel number or equivalent. | p. 77, metric table, C2.3 sector guidance for fishing, fish trading, fish processing and retail
- Adopting DisclosureC2.3
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2025
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- p. 77, metric table, C2.3 sector guidance for fishing, fish trading, fish processing and retail
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Organisation's disclosed reporting period
Unit meaning: Each field uses its stated unit and retains the applicable sector, reporting boundary, period and method.
Table fields and units
- reporting boundary
- vessel identifier basis
- total fishing gear items
- fishing gear items marked with port and vessel identification
- percentage of total fishing gear marked
Published dimensions
- marking status: marked with both port identification and vessel identification
- vessel identifier basis: IMO vessel number or equivalent identifier
- disclosure field: number of marked gear items or percentage of total fishing gear
- sector applicability: fishing, fish trading, fish processing and retail
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. The candidate specifies independently reportable outcome fields—a count and proportion of total fishing gear—with a stated marking criterion and denominator. It is not equivalent to vessel port-call or fleet-scale metrics in the shortlist. A structured form preserves the count and percentage without forcing a single unit.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- TNFD additional sector guidance for fishing, fish trading, fish processing and retail, p. 77, metric table, C2.3 sector guidance. | Extracted evidence: organisations reporting C2.3 disclose the number and proportion of fishing gear marked with port ID and vessel ID details, using an IMO vessel number or equivalent. | p. 77, metric table, C2.3 sector guidance for fishing, fish trading, fish processing and retail
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Fishing gear marked with port and vessel identification”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Define the fishing-gear population used as the denominator for the reported percentage.
- State the operational and/or supply-chain boundary used to identify relevant gear.
- Describe how port and vessel identification marking was verified.
- State whether the vessel identifier is an IMO number or an equivalent identifier and define the equivalent identifier where used.
Record-specific limitations
- The extract does not specify whether gear owned, operated, leased, sourced or otherwise connected through the value chain must be included; the organisation must disclose its selected boundary.
- The source extract provides both a count and percentage but does not prescribe a universal gear-item taxonomy or a standard method for verifying marking.
- The source locator identifies C2.3 sector guidance but does not provide the guide version or a fully qualified official sector code.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.