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.
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
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
Fishermen mending net, Madagascar.
Photo credit: Olivier Barbaroux
Imraguen fishermen of the Arguin Bank in their traditional craft lanche, Mauritania.
Photo credit: Olivier Barbaroux
Transporting the fresh catch, Costa Rica.
Photo credit: Coopesolidar R.I. / Costa Rica
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