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.
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
The livelihoods of women here have been further undermined after the War by the hordes of fishing enterprises that have arrived from other regions.
Photo credit: Cornelie Quist
Women managing the sales in the Mercado del Mar. The fish trading businesses are family run, many into their second and even third generation in this trade.
Photo credit: Carmen Pedroza-Gutierrez
A fishing village in Tonle Sap, Cambodia: 40-60 per cent of the 1.25 million people who are dependent on fisheries in this Lake area, live below the poverty line.
Photo credit: Kyoko Kusakabe
On 21 November 2016, hundreds of men and women from 16 African countries gathered in Lome, Togo, to celebrate World Fisheries Day. Photo credit: CAOPA
Women in the Valencian confraries are invisible in the public space in terms of access to power and property.
Photo credit: AKTEA
The study tour taught the participants many valuable lessons: methods for improved post-harvest processing, the use of superior materials such as solar power instead of kerosene lamps.
Photo credit: Ali Thani
Anjali’s village Samudrapur, Baisha canal (in light blue), and other places important in Anjali’s tale.
Photo credit: Sujoy Jana