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.
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
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
Preparation of a bamboo cage. Drafting hasty policies without delving deep into the areas such as ecosystem processes can cause irreversible damage to the sector and the ecosystem.
Photo credit: NFDB
Cage culture in Chandi Reservoir, India. Generally perceived as a boon for increasing production, this mode of production can as well turn out to be a harbinger of doom.
Photo credit: NFDB
The National Workshop on the SSF Guidelines was held in Karachi, Pakistan, as part of the efforts to mobilize support for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines.
Photo credit: Gul Hassan
Migrant and local fishers always work separately to avoid fights. Labour inspectors and EU norms ensure greater labour protection in the processing units than on the boats.
Photo credit: Nikhil Roshan
Workers pack fish into crates to be unloaded from the fishing craft as it returns to the Veraval harbour, Gujarat, India. The boats dock for just a day or two to restock fuel, ice and rations. During the eight months they spend in Gujarat, the men wake up every morning on a boat.
Photo credit: Nikhil Roshan