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.
It is of a curious piece of fishing gear called a Gerival and is used to catch prawns in lagoons in Santa Catarina, Brasil. It has been captioned as a trammel net. The net is conical, in fact it is a modified cast net, with a length of plastic pipe attached along part of the leadline and a weight dangling from each end of the pipe. It is suspended in the water by its apex with the leadline on the bottom exept for the pipe which is held a short distance above the bottom with the weights on the bottom. It drifts along the bottom in the tide with the pipe leading. It passes over the prawns without disturbing them until the trailing leadline reaches them. They then swim up the cone and into the bag at the top. The fisherman has the line supporting the apex in his hand is able to feel the prawns flip into the bag and can even count them in.
by Richard Stride
