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 woman feeding in aquaculture pond, India. Women contribute in almost all activities right from pond preparation, stocking, feeding, and to harvesting.
Photo credit: Sibasis Guha / CIFT
A mollusc collector in Costa Rica. In most cases, the role of women in small-scale fishing communities in Central America is hardly recognized as productive.
Photo credit: Coopesolidar R.L
Auction at Bund fish market, India. The women fish vendors start their day in the early morning and work through the day till their stocks are sold.
Photo credit: Ellen Thorell
Women fishsmokers in Guinea Konakry. There is a need to support women in these countries and in enabling them to link up with women fishworkers in other countries.
Photo credit: Beatrice Gorez / CFFA
View of fish processing factory at Saldanha Bay, South Africa. Many women in the region find employment in the factory and, in addition, assist their men in pre- and post-harvest activities linked to the employment contracts of the men.
Photo credit: ICSF
Women helping in cleaning nets, Mannar Island, Sri Lanka. The livelihood of the widows and deserted women is very fragile.
Photo credit: Cornelie Quist
Women mincing fist at the Hann Fish Market in Dakar, Senegal. The large majority of women in the fish sector are poor, wage labourers, and/or engaged in small scale operations.
Photo credit: Meryl Williams
A Bembe fisherman being helped by his son. In Nile Perch fishing new organizational forms are continually emerging.Photo credit: Modesta Medard
The Boring Road Crossing fish market in Patna, India. The number of women fish vendors has declined substantially.
Photo credit: Bibha Kumari
More than 600 fishers had converged on the reef flat known as Ngazi, and when the octopi were sighted, pandemonium broke out as people ran to reach the best octopus holes first.
Photo credit: Mwambao Coastal Community Network
A fish vendor at Kampong Phluk, Cambodia. Women dominated the retail trade of small fish from the Tonle Sap Lake and from rice fields.
Photo credit: Sumana Narayanan / ICSF
Tahira Shah leads a cultural rally in Hyderabad, Pakistan to celebrate World Fisheries Day on 21 November 2013. She spoke up against all forms of discrimination, based on gender, caste and religion and made other women also speak up against these.
Photo credit: Mustafa Gurgaze
Women of the Mahila Donga Samity and members of the Dakshinbanga Matsyajibi Forum in front of Kultali Forest Range beat office, West Bengal, India.
Photo credit: Pradip Chatterjee
Former salmon workers from various companies in Puerto Montt, gateway to Chiloé. Many have now left the sector to seek better pay and conditions elsewhere. The increasing rate of women’s participation in the labour market in Chiloé could be the result of these changes.
Photo credit: Bemba Camara / Rejopraopatricio Melillanca