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.
Lois is one of the first women to be an active deck fish harvester in coastal Nova Scotia. Lois has fi shed since 1982 with her husband.
Photo credit: Ruth Inniss
Fishing crew leaving for the job, Dares Salaam, Tanzania. The WAVUVI Scheme is one of the most innovative social-security schemes directly targeting fishers.
Photo credit: Jairos Mahenge
Women sardine traders awaiting for fishing vessels to dock, Tanga, Tanzania. Tanzanian fishers employed by industrial fishing vessels are comparatively better organized and better-off since they fall under the formalized employment regulations.
Photo credit: January Ndagala
Landing of the catch, Prampram, Ghana and in fisheries, child labour and trafficking occurs across the entire value chain, from downstream to upstream activities.
Photo credit: Jean Rivel-Fondjo
Fishermen day celebration, Cabo Blanco, Peru. Small-scale fisheries in Peru is extraordinarily diverse, particularly in terms of the gear used to gather or catch resources.
Photo credit: Juan Carlos Sueiro
Gillnet craft at Chimbote bay, Peru. The markets range from the country’s smallest villages to its largest cities as well as international destinations across the world.
Photo credit: Juan Carlos Sueiro
Koli fishermen, Machimar Nagar, Mumbai, India. Sculpture by Debanjan Roy, public art initiative by RPG Art Foundation.
Photo credit: Gaurav Mangela
Local reef fish on sale at Nukulaofa, Tonga. Examples of indigenous ‘resurgence’—efforts for the assertion of rights over traditional resources and self-determination—are increasing.
Photo credit: Colette Wabnitz
Children and women handlining for fish off Kavieng harbour, Papua New Guinea. Coastal indigenous peoples—artisanal fishers in general—are often conferred ambiguous faculties in the international discourse on ocean and sustainable policies.
Photo credit: Colette Wabnitz
A fishing community on Canada’s Atlantic coast, where small-boat fishers are struggling to have the government properly enforce its own rules.
Photo credit: Anthony Charles
Forty participants attended the National Seminar on Capacity-building for the Implementation of the SSF Guidelines, Centro Cultural de Brasília, 13-17 June 2016. The small-scale fishing institutional framework is still politically fragile at a national level.
A fishermen’s village in the Mannar District of Northern Sri Lanka. Sustainable development and, more specifically, human development within fisheries is intrinsically linked to local fishing communities.
Photo credit: Oscar Amarasinghe