More than 41 million fishers and fish farmers, most of them from Asia, produce annually about 142 million metric tonnes of fish – a major source of food, nutrition and livelihoods for the world’s 6.5 billion people. But fishers and fisheries are today in crisis, because of resource depletion, falling catches, pollution and other problems. These need to be tackled through systematic management, scientific studies, better governance and global co-operation. The drawings (by S Jayaraj) in the 2009 BOPBP-IGO’s table calendar highlight some of the emerging issues in fisheries through words and sketches.