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.
Panel discussion on “The Way Forward” at the end of the ICSF workshop on Social Dimensions of Marine Protected Area Implementation in India.
Photo Credit: Neena Koshy
M.K.R. Nair of the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, and Nalini Nayak, Member, ICSF, at the opening session of the workshop.
Photo Credit: Neena Koshy
Somali fishermen repair nets in the southern coastal town of Merka. Any lasting solution to sea piracy off Somalia should also address the problem of illegal fishing.
Photo credit: Aden Dahir
A fisherman prepares to go fishing in his boat in Merka, Somalia. Foreign vessels have encroached on Somali fishermen’s grounds, competing for high-value pelagic fish.
Photo credit: Aden Dahir
This Statement on Agenda Item 9: “Securing sustainable fisheries: Towards responsible fisheries and social development”, was presented by Naseegh Jaffer on behalf of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty(IPC)
Thomas Kocherry, Chandrika Sharma, Barbara Ekwall, Naseegh Jaffer, Arthur Bull and Herman Kumara during the Side Event organized by WFFP, ICSF and IPC on 9 March 2009.
Photo credit: Jackie Sunde
A scene from the Side Event on Agenda 9 : Securing sustainable fisheries: Towards responsible fisheries and social development.
Photo credits: Jackie Sunde
A seaweed farmer in Mafia Island Marine National Park, Tanzania. Marine parks are being increasingly promoted all around the world for the conservation of biodiversity.
Photo Credit: Ian Bryeson
Santa Cagua, woman shellfisher from Muisne, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The destruction of mangroves in Ecuador is depriving local communities of their sources of life and livelihoods.
Photo Credit: C-CONDEM
Small-scale fishers ought to be assisted by industrial fishers in negotiating how to share resources and territories. A scene from a fishing harbour in Chile.
Photo Credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca
Guinean fishermen setting a gillnet while rowing. The concerns of small-scale fisheries cannot be forever relegated to the sidelines of the global agenda.
Photo credit: Roman Le Bleis
A Coast Sami fisher in Deanodat, with a catch of king crabs that he was not allowed to sell. Quotas and licensing have, until recently, prevented Coast Samis from catching crabs.
Photo credit: Steinar Pedersen