Presenter Amanda Holden, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and naturalist Chris Packham have called on a satellite company to stop providing a service they say enables harmful fishing on an industrial scale.
Due to overfishing, the number of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean has been declining for almost a decade. The decline has been so severe that Tesco, Princes and other brands have taken the unusual step of asking regulators to take stronger action to curb the catches.
Now environmentalists are pursuing an alternative path to make the $4 billion fishery more sustainable.
Boats supplying the food chain use Iridium's real-time GPS tracking to detect and approach schools of fish
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In a letter to the U.K. arm of U.S.-based Iridium, the celebrities said the company's low-Earth satellite network provides vital GPS communications for European fishing companies that scoop up the tuna.
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