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.
Women fish traders divide jointly purchased fish at Pangode fish market in India. Bulk landings and centralized landing sites, transportation, ice and refrigeration technologies have, in turn, generated a new geography of fish marketing.
Photo credit: Holly M. Hapke
Harvesting of fish in ponds in Kenya. Over 300 vulnerable families in Homabay County are currently engaged in operating fish ponds.
Photo credit: Steffen Kugler
As fish in Kenya’s Lake Victoria region becomes increasingly scarce, women fish traders turn to fish farming to boost incomes and to find a way out of the pernicious practice of jaboya.
Photo credit: Charles Kariuki
Alejandra has been fishing in Lake Chapala with her husband for many years. Women normally fish with their children or husbands, very rarely on their own or with another woman.
Photo credit: Alejandra Cruz Flores
Maria Elena fishes with tumbos (button set gill net). Since her husband and she are older, to take out this net and pick out the fish is not as difficult as with the mangueadora, which is a small mesh, like a filtering net.
Photo credit: Alejandra Cruz Flores
Women volunteers recording beach profile, Karaikal, India and this programme has encouraged more women volunteers to get involved.
Photo credit: Sneha
Shellfish gatherers in Galicia, Spain, harvesting shellfish. As soon as the Galician mariscadoras (shellfish harvesters) got the status of professional fishers, they integrated with the cofradias (predominantly male fisher organisations) as independent groups.
Photo credit: AKTEA Network
The Sami Siida meeting was held in Ovre Alta, Norway and the laavo (the tent) was used as the meeting room where the professional women fishers met for the first time.
Photo credit: Anne-Lise Ekrem
AWFISHNET members with the leaders of Tanzanian fisheries division and AU-IBAR after launching the network in April 2017 at Dares Salaam, Tanzania. This consultative workshop brought together 55 participants from 28 African Union Member states.
Photo credit: AU-IBAR
Women processing white sea urchin roe for sale. The annual fishing season, locally known as sea eggs, is important socio-economically to hundreds of Barbadians.
Photo credit: Maria Pena
Vivienne Solis presenting a Position Paper on behalf of WMG at the Plenary Session of the UN General Assembly on 7 June 2017, New York. We must join efforts towards the conservation, sustainability and fair use of our ocean resources as well as defend the Commons.
Photo credit: Women’s Major Group (WMG)
Women filetting fish in the community of Petatan, Michoacan, Mexico.
Photo credit: Carmen Pedroza-Gutierrez
At the Women’s Worlds Congress held from 31 July to 4 August 2017 in Brazil, participants opined that the role of women in fisheries was devalued because of the lack of recognition for their activities.
Photo credit: Adriana Abreu
Inaugural session of the workshop on Women Fishworkers in West Bengal—Road Map for the Struggle to Survive, 15-16 June 2017, Kolkata, India.
Photo credit: Somenath Bhattacharjee
Mullaithivu-women’s protest release list of disppeared children and relatives. War widows and other single women heading households face economic hardships.
Photo credit: Cornelie Quist