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 fisherman carefully threads the line through the hook.
Photo credit: Alejandra Watanabe
Fishermen celebrating World Fisheries Day 2012 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Photo credit: Brian O’Riordan/ICSF
Children at a seashore.
Photo credit: Bona Beding
A South African lobster fisherman. Not being in the fish trade, most fishermen depend on local species for their subsistence.
Photo credit: Serge Raemaerkers
Keynote speaker Clare Swan, from the Kenaitze tribe of Alaska, and her daughter Bunny Swan, who began the conference with a song about salmon.
Kurt Byers / Alaska Sea Grant
The caleta of Guayacan in Coquimbo, Chile. A caleta is a registered area where fishers land their catches, keep their vessels and gear, and from where they carry out shore-based activities.
Photo credit: Karoll Vera
Children of a fishing community in Timor-Leste, which is currently experimenting with a community-based system to report IUU fishing in its waters.
Photo credit: Steve Needham / RFLP
The film focuses on the problems of the seaweed collectors of the Gulf of Mannar after the declaration of a national park.
Photo credit: Rita Banerji
Inaugural session of the national workshop on FAO IGSSF, held at Hanoi, Vietnam, during 1-2 November 2012.
Photo credit: Nguyen Duc Hieu
Nguyen Thu Hue, Director, MCD, Nguyen Quang Vinh Binh, Vice President, Fishery Association, Thua Thien Hue province, Tran Cao Muu, General Secretary, VINAFISH, and Chu Tien Vinh, Former Deputy Director, General Directorate of Fisheries, MARD.
Photo credit: Nguyen Duc Hieu
Members of the whale fishing community of Lamalera, Indonesia, setting out to sea at the start of the region’s whaling season.
Photo credit: Bona Beding
A local Member of Parliament from Sathkhira, Bangladesh, speaking at the regional workshop held to discuss the FAO IGSSF.
Photo credit: Sheikh Asaduzzaman
A first-of-its-kind national consultation on the FAO IGSSF was recently held at the CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Photo credit: MD. Tauhidul Alam
The participants for the three-day workshop included 10 parliamentarians as well as NGOs, the Myanmar Livestock Group and the local FAO Programme Chief.
Photo credit: Aung Kyaw Kyaw
Fish being sorted by members of a fishing village in Myanmar. The participation of small-scale fishers is key to the management of fisheries, according to the UN Special Rapporteur.