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.
Donald Rojas, President of the National Indigenous Bureau of Costa Rica, opens up the side event. Indigenous peoples, despite having been displaced in many cases from their territories, continue to maintain ancestral and current contact with the marine biodiversity.
Photo credit: Coopesolidar R.L.
Participants decided on their action plans for the future, which included surveying of numbers of women in small-scale fisheries in different roles. A clear outcome of the workshop was the need expressed by several groups for a national platform for women in small-scale fisheries.
Photo credit: ICSF
Field visits to various fish markets in Chennai helped participants observe situations that were different from their states, raising issues that they could discuss with each other.
Photo credit: ICSF
Participants at the workshop. The groups shared their experiences, with facilitators for each session then supplementing the inputs with legal provisions and schemes on those topics.
Photo credit: ICSF
Without the contribution of traditional knowledge, it would not have been possible to undertake such a detailed analysis of the different areas and of the fishery resources.
Photo credit: Lorna Marchena / INCOPESCA
Faux thon trade in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Today, this faux thon is landed in Abidjan by the tuna boats’ crew, and sold without control to local intermediaries, who then sell it to the women.
Photo credit: Micheline Dion Somplehi / Cmatpha
Participants at the workshop. The meeting witnessed the agonies and desperations of small-scale fishing communities working in rivers, lakes, wetlands and ponds.
Photo credit: Pradip Chatterjee
Sheer monsoon fishery magic! Mud banks are tranquil marine areas hugging the coast, which develop during the roughest monsoon period.
Photo credit: P.K. Dinesh Kumar
Langebaan leader Norton Dowries outside the Cape Town High Court,South Africa. The Langebaan community members have advocated for their right to preferential access.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Langebaan fishers listen to the legal advisers from Legal Resource Centre outside the Cape Town High Court, South Africa, June 2016. The Langebaan fishers considered themselves the rightful users and owners of the lagoon.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
The carrier boats that tow the rafts to the fishing ground and transfer the harvest from the rafts to landing sites also bring provisions.
Photo credit: Yin Nyein
There are about 20,000 to 40,000 fishers at work on rafts and another 4,000 to 7,000 workers working on carrier vessels. Owners of kyarr phong units do not participate in fishing.
Photo credit: Yin Nyein
The kyarr phong fishery—a bag net attached underneath a bamboo raft, both anchored together—is now practised in the Gulf of Mottama between September and May.
Photo credit: Yin Nyein
Mini purse-seine boats are docked at a fishing jetty in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra, India. The owners of such boats are the main employers of migrant labour.
Photo credit: Divya Karnad
Participants of the international workshop on ICTs for equitable and sustainable small-scale fisheries: promoting international cross-learning, Cape Town, South Africa.
Photo credit: Serge Raemakers