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.
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
“Trawling ploughs the sea bottom, levels it, leaving nothing. Trawlers take even the smallest fish!”, says one fisherman.
Photo credit: Ramya / ICSF
The prawns are boiled in seawater on board, which gives the product a salty taste.
Christian Brun, 46, Director General of the Maritime Fishermen’s Union (MFU), Canada of Shediac passed away accidentally on Monday, 5 December 2016. Born in Moncton on 1 September 1970.
Photo credit: WWW.MFU-UPM.COM
Shellfish divers from the community of Calata Pudeto Bajo in Chile’s Los Lagos Region protest against quota allocations. The Los Lagos region produces most of Chile’s shellfish (65 per cent).
Photo credit: PATRICIO IGOR Patricio Igor Melillanca / www.Ecoceanos.CL
Fish vendor, Chile. All along Chile’s diverse coastline, there are 455 communities where small-scale fishermen and fisherwomen live and work.
Photo credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca / www.Ecoceanos.CL
Fisherwomen of retirement age declumping oysters in the community of Makinohama, Japan.
Photo credit: Xavier Basurto
Ayukawa fisherman showing a species of flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) that became more abundant in the region after the tsunami.
Photo credit: Xavier Basurto
Makinohama in the Oshika peninsula, two days after the tsunami. The Oshika peninsula is located within the Miyagi prefecture, one of the 47 prefectures of Japan.
Photo credit: Takafumi Yokoyama
Drying fish on the shore, Arguin Bank, Nouadhibou, Mauritania
Photo credit: Olivier Barbaroux
Fishing in River Ganges, India. Fishing communities in Bihar, mostly landless and marginalized, eke out a difficult existence with no meaningful institutional structure to bind them together.
Photo credit: Nachiket Kelkar
The Tanzanian workshop, attended by 52 participants, set the stage for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. More than half of the participants, representing a wide spectrum of small-scale fisheries stakeholders, were hearing about the Guidelines for the very first time.
Photo credit: EMEDO