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.
GAF5 attendees on the opening day of the 10th Indian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum, at Lucknow, India. The symposium discussed the existing inequality and lack of social justice in aquaculture and fisheries.
Photo credit: HTTP://GENDERAQUAFISH.ORG
The 2014 Fishers Forum was hosted by the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organizations (BARNUFO) with the theme “Fisheries Livelihoods: Living for the Work”.
Photo credit: CNFO
Short-neck clams are harvested from an area of 60 – 80 ha in the Ashtamudi estuary of Kerala, India,by approximately 1,000 fishers. This is the first fishery in India to be accorded certification by the Marine Stewardship Council.
Photo credit: Juhan Samuel / Ani
Women fishworkers from Sao Tome and Principe. One of the primary complaints of some small-scale fisheries organizations is that they are not being adequately consulted.
Photo credit: Andre Standing
A fisherwoman at the Gabon fish market. A World Bank study describes the legacy of aid to the fisheries sector in Africa as dismal.
Photo credit: Andre Standing
The Cape Town assembly also took other decisions around actions at the national and continental levels, which included the forming of cross-sector alliances.
Photo credit: Nosipho Singiswa
Cape Town, South Africa, played host to the 6th General Assembly of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), hosted by the Masifundise Development Trust and Coastal Links.
Photo credit: Nosipho Singiswa
Naoko Ishii (CEO and Chairperson, GEF), Jihyun Lee (Environmental Affairs Officer, CBD Secretariat), Braulio Dias (Executive Secretary, CBD) and Ju-Young Lee (Minister of Ocean and Fisheries, Republic of Korea) at the SOI High-Level Meeting.
Photo credit: Korea Maritime Institute
One of four national workshops undertaken in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador. At these workshops, a strategy for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines was discussed.
Photo credit: INCOPESCA
South Africa has embarked on a national policy of expanding its MPAs. In total, approximately 9.26 per cent of the coastline is completely no-take.
Photo credit: South African National Biodiversity Institute
Net fishers at the Langebaan MPA. The 23 MPAs along the coast comprise a total of 23.17 per cent of South Africa’s coastline.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde