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.
Bert and Marja Bekendam on a fishing trip.
Photo credit: Cornelie Quist
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
| On March 8, 2015, women in artisanal fisheries from Guinea-Bissau, along with their sisters from Benin, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Mauritania, Senegal and Togo took the fishermen’s house in Bissau fishing port, Guinea - Bissau by storm.
Photo credit: Bemba Camara / Rejoprao |
Insulated vans bringing iced and frozen fish to the sea shore in Pallam, Kerala, India.
Photo credit: Nalini Nayak
Participants at the national level meeting of Estrela do Mar (Sea Star). Estrela do Mar were able to successfully promote fisherwomen rights within the fi sheries sector and their presence was acknowledged in all projects promoted by Mútua dos Pescadore.
Photo credit: Bruno Costa
Martilene Rodrigues and others at Pontal de Paraná meeting of ANP. Narratives presented in working groups and plenary discussions enabled participants to recall their struggle, the historic moment of the creation of the Articulation.
Photo credit: Naina Pierri
Hansaben with women fi hworkers attending meeting at Veraval, Gujarat, India. Meeting with the women of Jan Jagruti Manch started at nine in the night.
Photo credit: Shuddhawati Peke
Seaweed collectors in Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India. The Government of Tamil Nadu will soon provide identifi cation cards to women seaweed collectors, recognizing this unique group of women fishers.
Photo credit: Venugopalan / ICSF
Participants at the 10th annual meeting of the Umi Hito Kurashi Forum in September 2013. The Forum highlighted the problem of decrease in young people in fisheries.
Photo credit: Annie Castaldo
Usha Tai in a discussion with representatives of fishworkers organization at a meeting organized by ICSF.
Photo credit: Shuddhawati Peke / ICSF
Women fish processors in The Gambia. Eighty percent of fish processors and half the small fish traders in the country are women.
Photo Credit: ICSF
Migrant labourers are shucking oysters in Oku farms. Both Japanese women and migrant women entirely engage in shucking shells.
Photo credit: Kumi Soejima