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.
Participants at the Bagamoyo workshop. Mwambao and its partners aim to place these lessons and challenges on the table and discuss with their partners strategies and potential solutions for future implementation of the SSF Guidelines.
Photo credit: Mwambao
A kyarr phong fisherman on his bamboo raft in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar. All operations in the kyarr phong fishery along the value chain are undertaken by hired workforce.
Photo credit: Yin Nyein
Landing of small pelagics (sardines) by migrant fishworkers, Kerala, India.
Photo credit: Olivier Barbaroux
Imraguen fishermen of the Arguin Bank in their traditional craft lanche, Mauritania.
Photo credit: Olivier Barbaroux
A Madagascar octopus fisherman. Octopus fishing is an economic lifeline for around 80,000 small-scale fishers, over half of whom are woman.
Photo credit: Garth Cripps / Blue Ventures
Mathilde Jounot’s film Océan, La Voix des invisibles (Ocean, the Voice of the Invisibles), shown at the film festival in Lorient, France.
Photo credit: Mathilde Jounot
Women and men representing fishing communities, civil society organizations (CSOs) and governments in the Mekong region participated in the Regional Workshop on Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Lower Mekong Region from 30 April to 1 May 2016.
Photo credit: Somchai Singsa
Local fishers at Dwesa Cwebe MPA. Artisanal and subsistence fishers, predominantly from black communities, were systemically marginalized and dispossessed of their tenure rights to marine resources.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
A woman inter-tidal mussel harvester, Dwesa Cwebe, in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
A fisherwoman at Thongwa fish market, Yangon, Myanmar. Fish is an extremely important component of the Myanmar diet, and demand is growing quickly as the country urbanizes and incomes rise.
Photo credit: Gareth Johnstone
A dugout canoe fisherman from a tribal community in Cacra, India, inspecting his fishing net.
Photo credit: John Kurien
Kovran village fishers setting up Zapor, the traditional indigenous fishing tool for Kamchatka in Kovran river.
Photo credit: Oleg Zaporotsky