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 Norwegian purse seiner, part of the fleet run by independent operators, often on a family basis with crew drawn from the local community.
Photo credit: Quentin Bates
Traditional Netfishers in Langebaan Lago, South Africa
Photo credit: Ian Bryceson
Children in Yacila fishing village, Peru.
Photo credit: Luis Clemente Sanguinetti
Hook-and-line fishing, selective of both species and size, is the oldest and most widely practised fishing technique in the Seychelles.
Photo credit: Marc Sambi
Langebaan fishers met at the workshop to evaluate the social impacts of MPAs on their lives and livelihoods.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
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