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.
Cap-Pelw, New Brunswick wharf on a calm Sunday morning in August. Canada's owneroperator and fleet-separation policy ensured continued benefits for small-scale harvesters.
Photo credit: Maurice Theriault
Lobster harvester, Hermenegilde Robichaud, from Val-Comeau, New Brunswick with his day's catch. The most important fishery for MFU fish harvesters is the lobster fishery.
Photo credit: MFU
Transportation of fish in Chile.
Photo credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca / Ecoceanos
A guard in a shrimp farm in Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras. Central American farmers are quick to protect their property.
Photo credit: Maria Mestre Montserrat
Landing of shellfish by coastal fishermen in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Context-specific governance structures in fisheries should be promoted.
Photo credit: Nobuyuki Yagi
A fishing village in Prainha do Canto Verde, Ceara, Brazil.
Photo credit: KG Kumar/Icsf
Painting the craft in Chile.
Photo credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca / Ecoceanos
A mussel harvester in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Madan Mitra, the Honourable Minister of State for Fisheries, Government of West Bengal, addressing the Inaugural Session of the national workshop on small-scale fisheries.
Photo credit: Disha
National Workshop and Symposium on Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries, Kolkata, India, 19-21 September 2011, Participants at the group discussions reflected on key issues of concern to their lives and livelihoods, and also made specific proposals to address them.
Photo credit: Rina Roy
A gillnetter in Lorient, France. Quota management and privatization reinforce the power of financial institutions on fishing.
Photo credit: Alain Le Sann
An immigrant fisherman in Oban, Scotland. There is widespread use of underpaid immigrant workers in developed countries like Canada, Iceland and New Zealand.
Photo credit: Alain Le Sann
Trompie, a Struisbaai netfisher, protesting outside the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries offices, demanding his netfish permit.
Photo credit: Paul Grendon
A scene from Struisbaai Harbour, Western Cape, South Africa. The small-scale fishing sector was left high and dry in the implementation of the long-term fisheries policy.
Photo credit: Paul Grendon
A protest rally in Puerto Varas, Chile, during a visit by the Norwegian prince and the trade minister in January 2008.
Photo credit: Ecoceaonos