The gallery contains a collection of photographs published in issues of the SAMUDRA Report and the Yemaya Newsletter, as also other ICSF publications, workshops and meetings over the years. Also to be found are more general images of fishing and fishworkers in action across the world. There are about 10,000 photos from 64 countries. The photo database is searchable by caption, country and photographer. All images are free for download, though users are requested to credit the photos to ICSF and the respective photographer.
The public hearing on ‘Women and the sustainable development of fisheries areas’, invited women’s organizations to speak about their work, problems and perspectives.
Photo credit: Katia Frangoudes
Women play an important role in fisheries. Lack of attention to gender results in policy or programme failures to improve livelihoods.
Photo credit: RFLP
Hundreds of fish vendors gathered in protest outside the office of the marine fisheries department in Contai, East Medinipur, West Bengal.
Photo credit: Pradip Chatterjee/Disha
Women divers of Jeju in South Korea for whom diving for seaweed and seafood is a way of life.
Photo credit: Nalini Nayak
Fish mammies at Tombo, with catfish landings. They are the hub around which the fisheries revolve.
Photo credit: Thomas Lebbie
Woman shell-fish catchers have a deep understanding of the symbiosis between their lives and the life of the ecosystem in Ecuador.
Photo credit: Gladys Cortez
Dried dagaa ready for packing and transporting to the market, Kome Island, Tanzania.
Photo credit: Modesta Medard Ntara
Ten years ago there was greater openness to the idea of women’s participation in fishing organizations. Women were forming their own organizations as well.
Photo credit: ICSF
Participants of the workshop shared experiences and proposed strategies to deal with climate change.
Photo credit: Soledad Natalia M. Dalisay
60 fisherwomen from 12 of the 26 States in Brazil as well as researchers, advisers and supporters, met at the second meeting of ANP.
Photo credit: Naina Pierri
Women shared their collective experiences of living and working in small-scale fisheries, Thailand .
Photo credit: Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk/SDF
55 participants, mostly women, at the ICSF workshop on “Enhancing Women’s Role in Fisheries in India”.
Photo credit: Neena Koshy
Lobster fishing harbour of Naufrage on the north shore of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Herring is used as bait for lobster fishing.
Photo credit: Rhonda Lewis