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.
Tuna landing in Agatti. The increased demand for—and declining availability of—baitfish has made fishing arduous. Fishers now spend more time, fuel and labour searching for bait, increasing costs. Photo Credit: Shwetha Nair
Youth and Innovation Forum at the UNOC 2022. The conference brought together two main protagonists: those clamouring for reforms in ocean governance to ‘Save Our Ocean’, and those clamouring for reforms to open up the ‘Blue Economy’. Photo Credit: United Nations Regional Information Centre
Indian and other South Asian participants all echoed issues related to women fishworkers, the dilution of coastal regulations, and mechanization of the sector, which marginalizes small-scale fishers. Photo Credit: Traiphob Sangkum
Workshop participants discuss issues around access to resources for small-scale fisheries. They emphasized the need to formally recognize the rights of fishing communities to land and fishery resources. Photo Credit: Traiphob Sangkum
Participants at the IYAFA Asia Workshop in May, 2022. The meeting brought together 50 fishworker and and civil society representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Photo Credit: Traiphob Sangkum
Photo Credit: Brianna Bradley
Photo Credit: Wayne S Grazio
Photo Credit: Dany Chiam
Put simply, you cannot have large numbers of top predators without sufficient primary production and prey species.... In the expansion phase of fisheries it could appear as if the index was moving up the food web. But these effects are short-lived. Photo Credit: Rachel Atanacio
Pauly in Anilao, the Philippines, in 1986. “All I see down there is conflict, fish spending their time chasing each other and fighting—I’m swimming through the tragedies of the deep,” he said. Photo Credit: Roger Pullin
A beach seine in operation in Ilocos Norte, the Philippines. The implementation of the SSF Guidelines may not be as straightforward as one might have hoped; it is likely to meet obstacles on the way to realization at domestic and local levels. Photo Credit: Bernard Sprag
A fisherman rows to his boat at the mouth of the São Mateus River in Espírito Santo. Brazil used to be at the forefront of community-based alternatives that encouraged local communities to be stewards of the environment and their territories. Photo Credit: Tedd Santana
Pirogues docked in Ndar (Saint-Louis), Senegal. “With the energy of our youth, with the experience of our elders, we have only one message to decisionmakers: ‘Get ready, we’re coming!’”. Photo Credit: Yoann Gauthier
Participants at CAOPA’s World Fisheries Day event in November 2021 in Senegal. All around the world, fishing communities see young people deserting the sector. In this context, it was remarkable to see the participation of young men and women fishworkers in this gathering. Photo Credit: CAOPA
The new raft-like contraption commonly used by fishers in Kerala. It has a flat base of thermocol/polystyrene, about nine ft by four ft, stitched around in black rexine, looking more like a Brazilian jungada than a kattumaram.