The Reduce Risks to Endangered, Threatened, and Protected (ETP) Species target focuses on the reduction of risk to ETP species from wild capture fishing and aquaculture. It encourages engagement in seascapes and jurisdictions to improve conditions for and resilience of marine wildlife populations.

This target is designed for companies with farmed seafood in their direct operations or supply chains that present risks to ETP species; wild catch seafood that presents risks to ETP species not commercially harvested (& thus addressed in Target 1).

Each Ocean target has a series of different pathways that allow for multiple approaches to target-setting, depending on a company’s context.

Reduce Risks to ETP Species Target Pathways:

• Operations – when stakeholder consultation calls for changes to practices in direct operations or supply chain, companies commit to improvements to meet standards of best practice to reduce risks to ETP marine species
• Engagement – when changes to practices are not required, companies still commit to supporting existing, or developing new improvement initiatives to reduce risks to ETP marine wildlife and increase data availability
• Cease to source – when companies source wild catch or farmed seafood known to have interactions with critically endangered seafood without appropriate management plans, they commit to ceasing to source from these.