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.
Small-scale fishers on Disaneng Dam in Northwest Province of South Africa.
Photo credit: Qurbani Rouhani
Fish cleaning at St Helena Bay harbor, South Africa. The current top-down paradigm allocates the lion’s share of resources to the commercial sector, including the high-value species in the nearshore areas.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Mural fishers protest outside the Cape Town High Court, South Africa, February 2022. The political will to implement the underlying principle of equity is still lacking.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Artisanal fishermen in a cove in Puerto Montt, Chile. The new law eliminated indigenous communities and small-scale fishers who were not boatowners as “legal subjects” with rights to access and use Chile’s marine resources.
Photo credit: Subpesca.Cl
The boats of Ancon, a district of northern Lima Province in Peru. From the moment the law was passed, purse-seine owners strongly resisted their exclusion from the three-mile zone.
Photo credit: Alex Proimos
Guitar Fish caught by members of the San Pedro de Bujama Baja - Mala Artisanal Fishermen’s Guild Association, Peru. We represent a new generation of fishers resisting widespread abuse of power in order to maintain our presence in all types of fishery operations.
Photo credit: Jesus Miguel Bravo Roldan
Shirasu fish landing for the community festival, Mochimune fishing port, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Yet Japanese fisheries are now undergoing significant change in the marine, environmental, socio-economic and policy spaces.
Photo credit: Yinji Li
Van Ngoc Dieu and her husband are working on a rice-shrimp farm, Vietnam. Productivity challenges make it necessary that individual farmers join co-operatives or local producer groups, gaining from unified production processes.
Photo credit: Nguyen Duc Hieu
Tri Luc Rice Shrimp Cooperative Group, Vietnam. Co-operatives have been supported and promoted to develop sustainable shrimp-rice production practices.
Photo credit: Nguyen Huu Thong
A Small-scale fisherman carry fresh catch to the local market, weaving through the hustle with basket brimming with ocean treasures in Kutubdia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Photo credit: Din M Shibly
Fishermen unloading buckets of fish from their boats in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Some fish are going to disappear because of over-exploitation from catch-based quotas.
Photo credit: Asian Development Bank
Shrimp harvesting in Tri Luc Commune, Ca Mau Province, Vietnam. In Ca Mau, the shrimp-rice model dominates farming activities because of its high economic efficiency.
Photo credit: Nguyen Huu Thong
Gathering sockeye salmon for distribution to families in need along the Yukon River, Alaska. On the Yukon River, families that have depended on salmon since time immemorial can no longer harvest fish; it amounts to a loss of sustenance, culture and inter-generational connections.
Photo credit: Ben Blakey