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.
Industrial fishing vessels anchored off Nouadhibou harbour, Mauritania. Overcapacity in Mauritania's fisheries is a direct consequence of the financial requirements of the government.
Photo credit: Sebastian Losada/Greenpeace
A float marking the aboriginal sacred sites at sea. Protecting and maintaining sacred sites are an essential duty of the Djelk Rangers.
Photo credit: Nailsma.Smugmug.com
Senior traditional owners are an integral part of the Djelk Ranger programme. Young rangers are guided and mentored by their seniors.
Photo credit: Nailsma.Smugmug.com
Djelk Rangers patrol the beaches and waters off the Maningrida coast in the Northern Territory of Australia to remove marine debris.
Photo credit: Nailsma.Smugmug.com
Tuna longliners, at Lami, Fiji (near Suva, the capital). These vessels are listed on the WCPFC fi shing vessel register.
Photo credit: Tim Adams
Ecolabelled seafood at the Red Lobster restaurant, Illinois, US. Ecolabelling should be a tool to certify the principles of social and environmental responsibility.
Photo credit: Preetha Rakesh
105 fisheries are certified to the MSC eco label. Most of them come from industrial-scale trawl fisheries.
Photo credit: Vitor Jose Ramos/Msc
Satoumi are marine and coastal landscapes formed and maintained by prolonged interaction between humans and ecosystems in japan.
Photo credit: Anne Mcdonald / Unu-Ias
Satoyama Initiative, MPAs and other conservation activities have been created as bottom-up, self-imposed instruments of local communities, Japan.
Photo credit: Anne Mcdonald / Unu-Ias
A poster at the 1984 International Conference of Fishworkers and their Supporters in Rome, Italy.
Photo credit: Rolf Willmann