Stephen Fry is urging the public to join calls for Government action to save the UK’s oceans in its first 100 days in office.

The actor has teamed up with the Blue Marine Foundation, a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health, to raise awareness over issues like bottom trawling and overfishing.

In a video shared online and social media on Wednesday, he said: “Our oceans sustains all life on Earth as we know it.