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.
A participant at the workshop shares her group's feedback on the key issues facing small-scale fishing communities living in, or adjacent to, MPAs.
Photo credit: Mandla Gqamlana
The annual international film festival was organized for the second time at Lorient, France.
Photo credit: Nina Le Theix
The jury of the “Pecheurs du Monde” international fi lm festival, 2010. Along with the screening of films, there were also several side events at the festival.
Photo credit: Robert Le Gall and Maria Thamin
Ben Tre clam fishery, Vietnam. The fishery was provided support to form a co-operative alliance to reduce illegal fishing activity.
Photo credit: Amanda Stern-Pirlot
In Australia, the small-scale Lakes and Coorong fishery claims to regularly command premiums of 30 to 50 per cent for MSC-certified seafood.
Photo credit: Randy Larcombe
The classic Danish blue wooden fishing vessels might soon be a thing of the past, as the new management regime leads to a concentration of larger vessels, Denmark.
Photo credit: Jeppe Host
Launch of the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook, at Nairobi, Kenya.
Photo credit: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
A scene from the tiny community of Grand Isle on the Louisiana gulf coast near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, United States.
Photo credit: Chuck Cook
Recasting the net: The Mahabalipuram workshop resulted in a “shared agenda” of common dreams and strategies for improving the lives and livelihoods of fishing communities.
Photo credit: John Kurien
39 participants from 18 countries took part in the Mahabalipuram workshop on defining a gender agenda for fishing communities.
Photo credit: John Kurien
Nalini Nayak, Mamayawa Sandouno, Marylene Chever, Lamine Niasse and Alain Le Sann at the Mahabalipuram workshop.
Photo credit: John Kurien
Workshop “Recasting the Net: Defining a gender agenda for sustainable life and livelihoods in fishing communities”, Tamil Nadu, India, 7-10 July 2010, Organized by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF). Traditional ceremony of lighting the lamp to inaugurate the Mahabalipuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, workshop on current developments in fisheries and the lives and livelihoods of fishing communities.
Photo credit: John Kurien
A vendor from the Daldi fishing community, Mirkarwada, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.
Photo credit: Dharmesh Shah
Chairperson Jo Mulonguy addressing the CBD Africa Regional Workshop on Protected Areas. The workshop made recommendations to the forthcoming 14th Meeting of the SBSTTA.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Workshop on “Small Indigenous Freshwater Fish Species: Their Role in Poverty Alleviation, Food Security and Conservation of Biodiversity”, organized jointly by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) and the Inland Fisheries Society of India (IFSI), from 23 to 25 February 2010 at the Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Barrackpore, Kolkata.
The workshop was attended by 58 participants, including scientists, policymakers, fish farmers, members of civil society and representatives of multilateral agencies.
Photo credit: Sujit Chowdhuri