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.
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
A scene from San Antonio fish market, Chile. Fisheries policies should help fishers, especially women, earn a fair return from their labour.
Photo credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca
Farmers, indigenous peoples and workers’ leaders at a march during the Forum for Food Sovereignty, held in Rome in June 2002. Food producer constituencies will not be able to confront their problems on their own.
Photo credit: Massimo Vollaro
Indigenous peoples gathered at the United Nations General Assembly Hall celebrating the adoption of the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, September 2007
Photo Credit: Broddi Sigurdarson
Les Malezer, Chairperson, Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus to the United Nations, addressing the UN General Assembly.
Photo credit: Broddi Sigurdarson