Global coalition calls on Iridium to phase out the provision of GPS satellite services to companies that use harmful drifting Fish Aggregating Devices

Environmentalists and broadcasters Chris Packham, Hugh　Fearnley-Whittingstall, and Amanda Holden today called on a UK satellite company to stop providing GPS data to fisheries that puts vulnerable ocean species at risk of extinction.

Seven senior lawmakers including Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb and Martyn Day MP have also signed a letter drawn up by more than 100 marine conservation groups, scientists, and global lawmakers calling on Iridium Satellite UK Ltd to stop profiting from the overfishing oftuna.

JWCS has signed on to this letter.