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.
Rutakusima from Kome Island, Tanzania, holding a Nile perch.
Photo credit: Modesta Medard
Oyster beds.
Photo credit: Paul Seifert
Hector Fernandes at Quitula Casan. ‘Casans’ or ‘khajans’ lie below the high-tide level and are protected by levees known as ‘bunds” in the local Konkani language.
Photo credit: Henrique Fernandes
Soe Win, from Ahseekalay village in Pyapon District in the Ayeyarwaddy region of Myanmar, is Chairman of the Fisher Development Association (FDA).
Photo credit: U Ye Win
CFi members burning illegal fishing gears. CFi can set up its own rules and regulations that will control the fishing activity in the fishing areas.
Photo credit: Mina Hori
Small-scale fishers at Tonle Sap, Cambodia. The closed fishing lots were converted into conservation areas and small-scale fishing grounds managed by CFi.
Photo credit: Mina Hori
Jeremy Percy, Executive Director (LIFE), Franco Biagii, European Commission Fisheries Service (DG Mare), Brian O’Riordan (ICSF), Renata Briano, Member of the European Parliament and Christian Decugis, representing the French Prud’hommie platform at the Slow Fish event.
Photo credit: Slow Fish
Fishing community members of Dwesa Cwebe Marine Protected Area in South Africa map out their tenure with government officials.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Coastal Links’ leaders debate their tenure options. This small civil society group remains committed in its efforts to imagine that a different fisheries sector is possible.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Community centre at Nagapattinam. The large scale of construction without a sound technical support system has meant that the construction quality was not uniform.
Photo credit: Bedroc
The building of the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS) at Nagapattinam, where some exceptional sites are being projected as models for others to emulate.
Photo credit: Bedroc
Members of a fishing community at work in Madagascar. Artisanal fisheries create direct and indirect jobs for fishers and their families.
Photo credit: Brian O’riordan / ICSF
The southeastern islands of the Indian Ocean consume almost 30 kg of fish per inhabitant per year, with a world record for Seychellois people who consume 65 kg.
Photo credit: Christel Grimaud
Oil Collectors in the Sundarbans, India.
Photo Credit: Arati Kumar Rao
Raja Sekhar Vundru, Joint Secretary, DAHDF, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, delivering the valedictory remarks at the ICSF-BOBLME India workshop.
Photo credit: ICSF