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 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
Coast Sami fishers in Deanodat, the innermost part of the Tana fjord, east Finnmark. The basic material rights of the Coast Samis are endangered.
Photo credit: Steinar Pedersen
Informal area-specific labels may better identify marine products harvested sustainably. Such labels are more appropriate for an open and equitable society.
Photo Credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca
Pakistani fishers released from an Indian jail arriving in Karachi. Fishermen on both sides of the Indo-Pak maritime border are often caught for fishing in each other’s waters.
Photo Credit: PFF
Sri Lankan boats seized in India. Boats confiscated for transborder fishing are sometimes returned after months, often beyond salvage.
Photo credit: Antony Benchilas
Marie Ademar of Martinique, a member of WFFP,addressing the Civil Society Preparatory Workshop at Bangkok.
Photo Credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca
Trade in fish and fish products is of paramount importance for fishers of the South. A scene from a Bangkok fish market.
Photo credits: Cornelie Quist
Cosme Caracciolo and Zoila Bustamante of CONAPACH, Chile, at the 4SSF Conference in Bangkok: “It’s now time for us to take it forward!.
Photo credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca
A mussel harvester from Eastern Cape, South Africa. The world over, fishers are seeking a new ethic that prizes human dignity.
Photo Credit: Masifundise
South African fishers, along with allied workers, marching at Cape Town to fight for their rights to the sea.
Photo Credit: Masifundise
A scene from the fishing village of Kasaba, Kerala, India. There is need to adopt a human-rights approach to small-scale fisheries.
Photo credits: SIFFS