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 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
A leader of the indigenous Moken sea gypsy community at Tung Wah, Thailand.
Photo credit: SDF and SAN
A total of 106 participants from 36 countries met at the Civil Society Preparatory Workshop at Bangkok, prior to the Global Conference on Small-scale Fisheries.
Photo Credit: Patricio Igor Melillanca
Panel session at the 4SSF (Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries: Bringing together responsible fisheries and social development) Conference in Bangkok. The Conference was structured in a manner that lent it the potential to make progress.
Photo Credit: Harini Kumar
Fisherman with fish catch, South Africa
Photo credit: Artisanal Fishers Association
Podium at the closing session of COP9 of CBD, May 2008, in Bonn, Germany.
Photo Credit: CBD(Convention on Biological Diversity)
Jorge Varela from Honduras, representing CODDEFFAGOLF/WFFP, at the ICSF-WFFP side event.
Photo Credit: Omkar Gopalakrishnan
Naseegh Jaffer of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (in front), and Riza Damanik of KIARA, Indonesia, at the ICSF-WFFP side event.
Photo Credit: Omkar Gopalakrishnan
A protest meeting in front of the Marine and Fisheries Department, Jakarta, Indonesia that drew attention to the limitations of Law No. 27 of 2007, which deals with the management of coastal and small islands.
Photo Credit: KPNNI (National Preparation Committee Of Indonesian Fisherfolk’s Organization)
The participants of the Chile Workshop, workshop on artisanal fisheries, “Consolidating and Securing Artisanal Fishing Access and Use Rights”, Punta de Tralca, Chile, 4-8 August.
Photo Credit: Brian O’Riordan
