Pepijn, 3 months ago

Overfishing.org contained both an introduction to the issue of #overfishing, and #teaching resources. See attached some evergreens (low resolution, DM me for high res).

There's the "what, why, how" #infographic, #satellite imagery of #BottomTrawling in the Dutch #Waddensea #environment, and a poster with #trawling all around the world.

As I'm #sad to see the website go I've renewed the #domain for one more year and am happy to "donate" it to a good cause. Any interest: DM me.

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#ocean #sea

Along the coasts of The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark there lays a shallow coastal sea -with associated wetlands and islands- extremely rich with all types of important sea (it serves as a spawning and nursing grounds for fish) and bird (millions of migratory birds use the mud flats to feed on) life. Large parts of the sea consist of tidal mudflats. The intertidal area is sea during high-tide and dryish land during low-tide. For decades there have been bottom trawling and dredging activities on the Dutch part of the area. As of July 1, 2004 mechanical cockle fisheries have been banned in order to preserve the cockles (and the rich bottom) for the millions of birds. However, some fisheries on mussels (mariculture) and shrimp are still taking place. Here are two low-tide imageres showing the marks / scarves left by various trawling activities. These take years to disappear from visual sight and even longer for the benthic situation to return to the pre-trawling situation. The images are composites from aerial photographs, the location is near the island of Texel.
Along the coasts of The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark there lays a shallow coastal sea -with associated wetlands and islands- extremely rich with all types of important sea (it serves as a spawning and nursing grounds for fish) and bird (millions of migratory birds use the mud flats to feed on) life. Large parts of the sea consist of tidal mudflats. The intertidal area is sea during high-tide and dryish land during low-tide. For decades there have been bottom trawling and dredging activities on the Dutch part of the area. As of July 1, 2004 mechanical cockle fisheries have been banned in order to preserve the cockles (and the rich bottom) for the millions of birds. However, some fisheries on mussels (mariculture) and shrimp are still taking place. Here are two low-tide imageres showing the marks / scarves left by various trawling activities. These take years to disappear from visual sight and even longer for the benthic situation to return to the pre-trawling situation. The images are composites from aerial photographs, the location is near the island of Texel.
Modern satellite imagery clearly show the mud trails, distortion and other destruction left by the coastal -shallow water- version of these trawling activities. * trawling imagery from Ecuador, USA (Georgia and Louisiana), Netherlands (Vlieland and Westerschelde), Phillipines, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Mexico. Satellite images are Quickbird, Landsat and aerial photographs.

Pepijn, 3 months ago

Response to overfishing.org questions:

-It's on archive.org :-)

Shutting it down as:

1. in a practical sense, it's invisible on the modern internet. No https and not recently updated. Relevance of content is less than 10yrs ago.

2. it's hosted by Godaddy; they've massively increased the costs of the "grandfathered" hosting package to 320 euro/year.

3. It runs on old CRM software*

*if someone does offer (cheap..) https hosting I will consider maintaining a (semi-) static, updated, version.

martijn, 3 months ago

@Pepijn if fully static you could push it to Codeberg Pages or GitHub or another forge with page support

philip, 3 months ago

@Pepijn How static is the actual content? There’s a good chance old-school static web pages might cut cost significantly if you don’t actually need the CRM angle.

Pepijn, 3 months ago

@philip in theory fully, in practice could be nice to use PHP for some basic simplified header / footer / menu maintenance.

(the website had some more interactive functionality which I turned off three years ago due to old unsafe cms issues.. It's fine without it).

philip, 3 months ago

@Pepijn Have you come across the concept of “Static Site Generation”? Effectively the idea is to allow “dynamic” content in the kind of way you’re describing, i.e., not having to retype boilerplate in a bunch of HTML files, but rather than inserting that on the server when the page is served, doing so locally when the site is “generated”.

You get to have some dynamic content, and also you get to serve static sites for cheaper. Potential win-win. https://jamstack.org/generators/

philip, 3 months ago

@Pepijn If that works for your needs, and you’re comfortable with the source code for the site being hosted on GitHub, you can use their Pages product to serve the site free of charge: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages

Pepijn, 3 months ago

@philip @martijn Thanks both for your suggestions. That seems like something I can figure out and make work (I am from the WS_FTP and notepad written PHP / html / css period..).

Maybe I'm overlooking something but does https "automatically" work with these type if solutions?

martijn, 3 months ago

@Pepijn @philip yep it does 👌.

If you don't find anything you like I can do static hosting as well. But I'm not set up for 'other users' currently