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.
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
Landing locos harvested from an AMERB. Fishermen get access to credit from banks which take as collateral the loco stocked in the AMERBs.
Photo credit: Javier Rodrigues and Revista Puerto
Harekrishna Debnath dedicated his life to the struggle of marginalized fishworkers. He believed that the movement in support of fishworkers should go on.
Photo credit: ICSF
Vendor in Fish market in Orissa, India.
Photo credit: Neena Koshy
Delegates at the Africa Regional Meeting in Cote d’Ivoire on the CBD Programme of Work. 43 countries were represented at the meeting.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
Menakhem Ben-Yami, fisheries adviser, Israel, at a workshop in Lorient, France, discussing the elements needed for an effective partnership between fishers and scientists.
Photo credit: Alain Le Sann
Jean-Jacques Tanguy, a fisherman from Mogueriec, Northern Finistere, France. Cheap imports and the collapse of demand from Spain have weakened the fishing sector.
Photo credit: Bastien Malgrange
Esbjerg, one of the biggest harbours, is now more or less closed as a fishing harbour, while some small harbours and 'fishing beaches' are doing well.
Photo credit: Mogens Schou
A modern, demersal trawler at the large harbour of Hanstholm, on the west coast of Denmark.
Photo credit: Mogens Schou
An artisanal fisherman from Sarawak, Malaysia. The BOBLME project will focus on strengthening the management capability in each participating country.
Photo credit: Rolf Willmann
Boys from the fishing community display their catch in the shallow beach waters of Tombo, western Sierra Leone.
Photo credit: Thomas Lebbie