Teaching materials

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This section contains the various teaching and educational materials available on overfishing.org. Downloadable material as well as the references for the data used in the materials can be found here. Please see this page for usage rights. Feedback and new additions are always appreciated!

Introduction to overfishing infographic

A quick and accessible infographic or "one minute crash course to overfishing". Available as image file (online preview), PowerPoint presentation and as a zip file with ten separate images.

PowerPoint
• Version: 1.2 - August 2010
• Author: P. Koster - overfishing.org
• Download: 2010_overfishing-presentation_overfishing.org_v1.2.ppt (1.177kB)

Image: Full infographic
• Version: 1.1 - July 2010
• Author: P. Koster - overfishing.org
• Download: overfishing_infographic_v1.1.png (658kB)

Zip file: ten images
• Version: 1.2 - August 2010
• Author: P. Koster - overfishing.org
• Download: 2010_overfishing-presentation_overfishing.org_v1.2.zip (1.541kB)

Poster: Satellite images from bottom trawling

Two different types of posters showing examples (from eight countries, shots from Ecuador, USA (Georgia and Louisiana), Netherlands (Vlieland and Westerschelde), Philippines, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Mexico) of bottom trawling as captured by aerial and space imagery. This page has some previews.

Big Poster, ten photos
• Version: 1.2 - May 2009
• Author: P. Koster - overfishing.org
• Download: A4, 1818x2572 pixels (bottom_trawling_poster_A4.jpg, 1.774kb)
• Download: A3, 2572x3638 pixels (bottom_trawling_poster_A3.jpg, 3.130kb)
• Download: Adobe PDF file (bottom_trawling_poster_A3.pdf, 2.833kb)

Wadden Sea (Netherlands)
• Version: 1.0 - January 2007
• Author: P. Koster - overfishing.org
• Download: Texel trawl location one, 1930x1276 pixels (2007_waddentrawl_composite_1.jpg, 1.327kb)
• Download: Texel trawl location two, 1728x891 pixels (2007_waddentrawl_composite_2.jpg, 895kb)

Google Earth layer: Extinct marine animals

An interactive Google Earth layer (.kmz file) showing the demise of recently lost marine animals. With extinction facts, images, locations and descriptions of the Steller's Sea Cow, Great Auk, Caribbean Monk Seal, Japanese Sea Lion, Labrador Duck, Tasman Booby, Yangtze River Dolphin, Pallas's Cormorant, Guadalupe Storm-petrel, Small St Helena Petrel, Eelgrass limpet, New Zealand grayling and the Large St Helena Petrel.

Google Earth layer
• Version: 1.2 - May 2011
• Author: P. Koster - overfishing.org
• Download: extinct_marine_animals-OL.kmz (68kb)