Fishing about and about fishing
Menakhem Ben - Yami
1. Preliminary report on experimental fishing with an improved
type of trawlnet. Proc.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit., (4):269-280. 1957.
2. Study of the Mediterranean trawlnet. Modern Fishing Gear of
the World (H. Kristjonsson, Ed.). Fishing News Books Ltd.
Pp. 213-221. 1959.
3. The use of machine-made webbing for Mediterranean trawlnets.
Proc.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit., (6):129-135. 1961.
4. Study of the Mediterranean otter-boards. Ibid, (7):103-137.
1963.
5. *Report on the Fisheries in Ethiopia. Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Department for International Cooperation, Jerusalem.
106 pp. 1964.
6. Labour-saving methods on board Mediterranean trawlers.
Proc.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit.
7. Observations on the distribution and behaviour of pelagic
schooling fish in the southern Red Sea. Bull.Sea Fish.Res.Sta.,
Haifa, (51):31-46. 1968.
8. Designing an improved California tuna purse seine.
Fish.Industr.Res., 4 (5):183-207. (With R.E.Green), 1968.
9. Fishing surveys and commercial exploitation of deepwater
trawling grounds. In: Exploration of the Possible Deep-Water
Trawling Grounds in the Levant Basin (O.H.Oren, Ed.).
Stud.Rev.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit., (49):51-59. 1969.
10. A side-tracking neuston net. Mar.Biol., 6 (4):312-316
(With A.Herzberg, S.Pisanty, and A.Lourie), 1970.
11. Ivory Coast (Experimental purse seining with lights and
a fishing survey in the open ocean). Survey and Development of
Pelagic Fish Resources (Sardinella) Project. FAO, FI:SF/IVC/6/1;
21 p. 1971.
12. A preliminary study in application of an airborne radiation
thermometer in fishery research. Fourth sci.Conf.Isr.ecol.Soc.,
I:69-103. (With S.Pisanty, J.Otterman, and R.Zach), 1973.
13. Technology research on a small budget. Fish.News Internat.,
12 (4):33-34.
14. The invasion of Saurida undosquamis (Richardson) into the
Levant Basin - an example of biological effect of inter-oceanic
canals. Fish.Bull.(USA), 72 (2):359-373. (With T.Glaser), 1974.
15. Gnawing at fishing netting - a problem in cage-raising of
herbivorous fish. Aquaculture, 3:199-202. 1974.
16. Design efficiency in purse seines. Wrld.Fish., 23 (7):48-54.
1974.
17. Mechanized gear handling on Mediterranean stern-trawlers.
Wrld.Fish., 32 (12):52-57. 1974.
18. Setting doors to save fuel - rules governing performance of
flat trawl boards. Wrld.Fish., 24 (3):15-30. 1975.
19. *Russian-English Glossary of Fishing and Related Marine Terms
Israel Program for Scientific Translations (for NMFS/NOAA and the
Natl. Science Foundation, U.S.A.), Jerusalem. 182 pp, (2196 ent-
ries; English index). 1975.
20. A note on the grey-mullet fishery in the Bardawil Lagoon
(North Sinai). Proceedings of the IBP/PM International Symposium
on Grey Mullet and their Culture, Haifa, 1974. Abstract:
Aquacult. 5:112. 1975.
21. Southern Red Sea fisheries. World.Fish. 24 (5):94-99. 1975.
22. *Fishing with Light - FAO Fishing Manuals.
Fishing News Books Ltd. 150 pp. 1976.
23. The role of fishing technology in the development of inland
fisheries. Indo-Pacific Fishery Commission 17th Session, Colombo.
IPFC/76/SYM/50, FAO, Rome. 4 pp. 1976 & Proc.IPFC, 17(3):421-3. 1977
24. Community fishery centres and the transfer of technology to
small-scale fisheries. Indo-Pacific Fishery Commission 19th
Session. IPFC/80/SYMP/SP/2. FAO, Rome. 11 pp. 1980.
25. *Pair Trawling with Small Boats. FAO Training Series 1.
(With H.S.Noel). 77 p. FAO, Rome. 1980.
26. *(Editor) Tuna Fishing with Pole and Line - FAO Fishing
Manuals. Fishing News Books Ltd. 150 pp. 1980.
27. Handling, transportation, and stocking of fry. In: O.H.Oren (Ed.) Aquaculture of Grey Mullets. Cambridge University Press. Pp.335-360. 1981.
28. Methods of capture of grey mullet. Ibid. Pp. 313-334.
(With E.Grofit). 1981.
29. Chapters: Ecology of fishing; Development of fishing methods in the
Land of Israel; Fishing vessels. In: I.Arnon (Ed.) The Ency-
clopedia of Agriculture, Volume 4. The Encyclopedia of Agri-
culture Ltd., Tel-Aviv. Pp. 892-898 (In Hebrew). 1981.
30. Special problems of small-scale fisheries. IPFC Committee
for the Development and Management of Fisheries in the South
China Sea 2nd Session, Manila, 1982. IPFC:DM/SCS/82/5.
FAO, Rome. 17 pp. (With F.T.Christy). 1982.
31. La peche du thon a la canne: une technique a developper dans
les pays du tier monde. La Peche Maritime, 1982 (1):3-34. 1982.
32. Fishing gear selectivity and performance. FAO Expert Consul-
tation on the Regulation of Fishing Effort (Fishing Mortality).
FAO, Rome. WCFMD/Prep.1, Sess.2/Panel 2.3. 13 pp.
(With D.B.Thomson). 1982.
33. Fishermen organizations and their special needs. Seminar on
Fisheries Development and Management in Nigeria.
NIR/77/001. FAO/UNDP, Lagos. 1983.
34. Technology transfer (I). Wrld.Fish., 33 (9):4-5. 1984.
Technology transfer (II). Wrld.Fish., 33 (10):5-6. 1984.
35. *Fish Finding with Echosounders. FAO Training Series - 7.
98 pp. (With J.Burczynski). FAO, Rome. 1985.
36. *Community Fishery Centres: Guidelines for Establishment
and Operation. FAO Fish.Tech.Pap., (264):94 pp.
(With A.M.Anderson). 1985.
37. Utilization of stocked silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys
molitrix Val.) through smoking. Bamidgeh, 37 (3):77-98.
(With A.Gelman et.al.). 1985.
38. Artificial islands - the Israeli context. Cities on the Sea -
Past and Present. (Proceedings of) 1st International Symposium on Harbours, Port Cities and Coastal Topography. Pp.29-32. Haifa, Sept.,1986.
39. Aquaculture: The importance of knowing its limitations.
Ceres, 19 (4):15-19. FAO, 1986.
40. Cooperatives. Wrld.Fish., 35 (6):38-39. 1986.
41. Up-grading Israel's obsolescent fleet. Ibid. 35 (10):18-19.
1986.
42. Cages in farming: Red Sea and reservoir sites for Israeli
tests. Fish Farm.Internatl., 13 (11):10. 1986
43. *Purse Seining with Small Boats. FAO Training Series - 13.
97 pp. FAO, Rome. 1987.
44. Automatic feeding for Israeli farms. Fish Farm.Internatl.,
14 (4):12-13. 1987.
45. The integrated wheelhouse. Wrld.Fish., 36 (4):33,36. 1987.
46. Farming is not a cheap source of Third World Protein.
Fish Farm.Internatl., 14 (10):28-29. 1987.
47. Quasi-cyclic fluctuations in St.Peter’s fish (Sarotheredon galilaeus)
stock in lake Kinneret and their management implications. (With S.Pisanty and H.Talpaz). Fish.Fishbreed.Israel. 20(3-4):26-38. (In Hebrew with Engl. Abstract).
48. *Attracting Fish with Light. FAO Training Series - 14. 72 p.
FAO, Rome. 1988.
49. Integration of fishing vessel instrumentation under a single
computer umbrella. Proceedings - World Symposium on Fishing Gear
and Fishing Vessel Design 1988. P.392-395. St.John's, Canada.
1988.
50. The role of small-scale fishing gear and techniques in development: challenges towards the year 2000. Ibid. P.449-453. St.John's, Canada. 1988.
51. *How to make and set FADs (Fish Aggregating Devices). FAO
Training Series - 15. 68 p. FAO, Rome. 1989.
52. Trends in boats motorization in artisanal fisheries; the cases of
Nigeria, Ecuador, and Kenya. International Fisheries Energy Optimization Working Group. Vancouver, Aug. 28-30, 1989. Session 1, Pap. 1.3. 1989.
53. Energy saving in small trawlers through improvements in
propulsion systems. Ibid. Session 4, Pap.4.3. (With A. Kohane). 1989.
54. Ecological aspects of artificial islands – the Israeli context (with Y.Nir). In: Gallil, B. & Y.Mart (eds.). Studies of Mediterranean coastal margins of Israel. Collection of Lecture Abstracts. (Inst.Nat.Conserv., Fac. of Life Sci., Tel Aviv Univ.). 1990. 3rd Session, 1 p.
55. Scope of low energy fishing in the present world fisheries context.
Pp.121-125 in: George, V.C. et al (Eds.). Low Energy Fishing. Fish.Technol. (Spec. issue: Proc.Natl.Workshop on Low Energy Fishing, Aug.8-9, 1991). Society of Fisheries Technologists, India. 1993
56. *Purse Seining - FAO Fishing Manuals. Fishing News Books by arrangement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. 1994.
406 p.
57. Disastrous anthropogenic modifications in the Black Sea eco-system. In: Gallil, B. & Y.Mart (eds.). Mediterranean coastal margins of Israel. Collection of Lecture Abstracts. (I.O.L.R. – Natl. Inst. Oceanogr.). 3rd Session. 1994. 3 pp.
58. Tuna fishing – a review: (Part 1 – General), Infofish Internatl.
95(5):69-76. 1995.
60. Tuna fishing – a review: (Part 2 – Pole-and-line fishery), Infofish Internatl. 96(1):51-76. 1996.
61. Tuna longlining – a review: (Part 3). Infofish Internatl. 96(5):52-5; contd. in ibid. 96(6):51-54.1996.
62. Ecological and socioeconomic aspects of the expansion of Nile Perch in Lake Victoria. Pp. 95-110 in: Meyer, R.M. et al (Eds). Fisheries Resource Utilization and Policy. Proc. World Fisheries Congress. Theme 2. Oxford & IBH Publ.Co., New Delhi. 1996.
63. Bering Sea controversy. World Fish. 1996(11):11-14. 1996.
64. Haifa Bay pollution – research needs. In: Gallil, B. & Y.Mart (eds.). Mediterranean coastal margins of Israel. Collection of Lecture Abstracts. (I.O.L.R. – Natl. Inst. Oceanogr.). 1996. P.23-26.
65. Tuna purse-seining: recent developments. Infofish Internatl. 97(2):51-54. 1997.
66. Tuna fishing – a review: Part 4 – Purse seining. Infofish Internatl.
97(3):57-62. 1997.
67. Open ocean aquaculture. Infofish Internatl. 97(5):21-25. 1997.
68.. Chapters: Trawling: the basics; Fishing materials; Purse seining. In: Fisherman’s Manual. World Fishing. 1997. 64 p.
69. Middle Eastern marine environments: an overview of anthropogenic impacts. Pp. 365-374 in Albert, J., Bernhardson, M. and R.Kenna (Eds.). Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons. Bull.Series (103). Yale Univ., New Haven, USA. 1998.
70. ICZM and the role of scientists. In: Gallil, B. & Y.Mart (eds.). Mediterranean coastal margins of Israel. Collection of Lecture Abstracts. (I.O.L.R. – Natl. Inst. Oceanogr.). P.33-36. 1998.
71. Fisheries management: stealing the common. (A keynote lecture delivered at the St.John’s Conference of Harvesters in the North Atlantic Fisheries). Samudra (19):11-18. Jan., 1998.
72. Credit for small-scale producers: African options. Pp. 246-253,
in: Grossman, D. et al. Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Africa (Workshop proceedings, Netanya, Israel, 23-27 June, 1996). Ashgate, Aldershot, UK & Brookfield USA. 1999.
73. Safety at sea: the tragedy of official default. Samudra (23):24-28, Sept.1999.
74. Risks and Dangers in Small-Scale Fisheries: an Overview. Sectorial Activities Programme. ILO, Geneva. 2000. 60 p.
75. Integration of traditional institutions and people’s participation in an artisanal fisheries development project in Southeastern Nigeria. In: McGoodwin, J.R. Understanding the cultures of fishing communities. FAO Fish.Tech.Pap. (401):133-167. 2000
76. Pollution in Israeli Waters. Samudra (29):3-4, Aug.,2001. www.benyami.org.
77. *Russian-English/English Russian Dictionary of Fishing and Related Marine Terms. (With A.Gelman). EASTFISH – The Fish Publishing House (Fachpresse Verlag Michael Steinert, An der Alster 21, D-20099 Hamburg). 2001. 235 p.
78. Fisheries management in the Mediterranean coastal waters. In: Gallil, B. & Y.Mart (eds.). Studies of Mediterranean coastal margins of Israel. Collection of Lecture Abstracts. (L.Rekanati’s Inst. of Mar.Stud., Haifa Univ. & I.O.L.R. – Natl. Inst. Oceanogr.). P.46-50. 1998.
79. Safety in small-scale fisheries: what is to be done? In: Lincoln, J.M. et al (Eds) Proceedings of the International Fishing industry Safety and Health Conference.
NIOSH, U.S. Dept of Health., Cincinati, OH, USA. (pubstaft@cdc.gov). 2002.
80. Fisheries management: Something has gone wrong. Samudra (34):29-32, March 2003. www.benyami.org.
80. Fisheries management: Hijacked by neoliberal economics. Samudra (35): 19-25, July 2003. www.benyami.org. Post-autistic Economics Review (Internet journal) - www.paecon.net.
81. Conversations: Joining a bit late. Samudra (36):34-44, November 2003.
82. * Out of Fishermen’s Hands: The Evolution of Fishing Cultures. With G.Sharp and J.R.McGoodwin, 2004. 238p. http://garysharp.org.
83. The effect of climatic shifts on catch composition in the Mediterranean Fisheries of Israel. In: The Second Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of Aquatic Studies – Abstracts (2005). P.10.
84. Observations on Fishery Management of the Faroes – Internet: www.benyami.org and www.fiskimannafelag.fo. 2006.
85. * Making sense of sustainable fisheries management. Pp. 17-40.
In Olsen, M. (phot.), M.Ben-Yami and B.Tyril). Images of Fishermen: the North Atlantic. (GlobalOne Press Ltd., Aberdeen, UK). nais@globalone-press.com). 384 pp. 2006
86. The meaning of sustainability. Part 1. World Fishing, 2006 (5):6.
87. The meaning of sustainability. Part 2. World Fishing, 2006 (6):6.
88* Progressive development in the marine environment (with A. Issar). Chpt. 11, pp. 71-79, in: Issar, A. (ed.) Progressive Development. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg). 152 p. 2010.
89. The performance of trawl boards while turning, pp. 294-295. In: Ivanov V.E. et al (eds). Proceedings of International Scientific-Practical Conference Dedicated to 5th Anniversary of Prof. A.L. Fridman and 95th Anniversary of the Department of Commercial Fishing, 20-21 May, 2010. (FGOU-VPO-Kaliningrad State Technical University). 454 p. 2010.
90. Marine Farming: Perspectives on Its Inevitability and Sustainability,
pp. 1-25. In: A. Chircop et al (eds) Ocean Yearbook 25. (Martinus Nijhoff Publ. Leiden-Boston). 876 p, 2011.
91. Fisheries Ecology, Stock Assessment and Fishery Management,
pp. 33-39. In: Orlov, A.V, et al (eds). Proceedings of International Scientific-Technical Conference dedicated to the 125th Anniversary of the Birth of the Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR Fedor Iliich Baranov. (FGBOU-VPO-Kaliningrad Kaliningrad State Technical University). 472 p. 2011.
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Also many book reviews, and papers and articles published in Hebrew in the Fishm.Bull. (Israel) and Fish.Fishbreed.Isr.
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“Menakhem Ben-Yami” – a monthly page in World Fishing, since 1994.
Postings on FISHFOLK Internet discussion list since 1995.
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Many translations from Russian to English (all published by the
Israel Program for Scientific Translations for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Science Foundation). The main ones:
*Handbook of Fishing Gear and its Rigging, by N.N. Andreev.
454 pp. 1966.
*Fishing capacity of trawls, by V.A. Ionas. 57 pp. 1969.
*Trawls and Trawling, by Yu.N. Kostyunin. 143 pp. 1971.
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Menakhem Ben-Yami, mainly self-taught fishing technologist and fishery ecologist, is a free-lance international fisheries development and management adviser and writer on fisheries matters. Following a naval service in Israel, in 1950 he started his career as a fisherman, then a fishing and naval skipper. He fished, commercially and experimentally, and conducted fishing surveys in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, the Central Atlantic Ocean, lakes and lagoons, using trawls, purse and beach seines, light-attraction, hooks and gillnets. In the late 1950s, when still a commercial fishing skipper, he was engaged by Israel’s Sea Fisheries Research Station to carry out, jointly with FAO, a major study of the Mediterranean trawl gear.
From 1960 to 1963, M. Ben-Yami worked as a Masterfisheman and Fisheries adviser in Eritrea, where he organised fishermen’s loan fund – a credit scheme based on mutual guaranty groups. From his next position of Chief of the Israeli Fisheries Technology Unit and, later, Director of the Fisheries Technology Division, he was called up in mid-1970s by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation to become a Fishery Industry Officer based at its HQ in Rome where he worked for 7 years. His fields of responsibilities was fishing technology and development of small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. During that period he visited and advised fisheries in many African, Central American and South American countries, as well as in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Thailand, and many Caribbean and other oceanic islands.
In 1966, while on a fellowship in the USA, at the Southwest Fishery Center at LaJolla, CA, he developed and model tested a fast-sinking tuna (“hybrid”) purse seine. His design was then successfully tested by the Center in full-scale sea trials, and, reportedly, had a significant influence on the future California tuna purse seines, facilitating their use also for fishing skipjack on high seas. In later years, he was called for consultations and meetings participation by the U.S. Academy of Science, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the Smithsonian Institution, the Canadian Government’s Fisheries and Oceans, the Yale University Center for Middle East Studies, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Institute of Fisheries and Marine Technology, was a keynote speaker and presented papers on several international meetings, delivered many occasional lectures at universities and research institutes in Israel, USA, Russia, and Poland, and was giving courses in marine ecology at the Galilee College (Israel).
Since his early retirement from both the FAO and the Israeli Dept. of Fisheries, M.Ben-Yami has carried out numerous missions to 3rd World countries as consultant to FAO, IFAD, UNDP, GTZ, the Commonwealth of Nations, and IDRC, associated with development of small-scale fisheries, credit schemes, and allocation of fishery resources between small and larger scale fishery sectors. He traveled widely to visit fisheries also in many countries of Europe and both Americas.
M. Ben-Yami authored numerous technical reports, scientific papers, and articles* on various subjects of fishing technology and ecology, and fisheries development, as well as several FAO Fishing Manuals dealing with fishing with light, small-scale trawling and purse seining, FADs, tuna fishing with pole and line, and of FAO and IFAD manuals on development in fishing communities, cooperatives and other fisherfolk’s organisations and credit schemes in developing countries*. He translated for the U.S. Academy of Sciences and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries several Russian books and numerous papers in fisheries and marine science. He also designed and edited the PC-FISHELP - a computer expert program in fishing technology and vessel economics. Since 1994 he has been writing a personal column in the "World Fishing" magazine, and active on the FISHFOLK Internet discussion list. In 1999 he prepared major working papers for ILO (Safety of Small-Scale Fishing People - a World Review), and FAO (Socio-Cultural Aspects of Food Security – Eastern Nigeria case study). His and A.Gelman’s English-Russian/Russian- English Dictionary of Fisheries and Related Marine Terms was published by EASTFISH in December, 2001. Since 2000 he travelled to visit and advise fisheries in Australia, Florida, Ecuador, including Galapagos, North Ireland and the Faroe Islands. In parallel, as a member of the board of directors of the Coalition for Public Health, he has been deeply involved in the campaign against major industrial polluters of the Kishon River and the Kishon Fishing Harbour (Israel) on behalf of fishing people whose health has been affected by toxic pollution.
In 1996, following the publication by FAO and Fishing News Books of his "Purse Seining Manual", the Kaliningrad State Technical University awarded M.Ben-Yami “the scientific title of Doctor Honoris Causa for substantial contribution to development of fisheries science and to training of specialists”.
PUBLICATIONS BY M. BEN-YAMI
MENAKHEM BEN-YAMI
Man of the year - 2014
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY M. BEN-YAMI RELEVANT TO
FISHING TECHNOLOGY AND FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
1. Preliminary report on experimental fishing with an improved
type of trawlnet. Proc.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit¬., (4):269-280. 1957.
2. Study of the Mediterranean trawlnet. Modern Fishing Gear of
the World (H. Kristjonsson, Ed.). Fishing News Books Ltd.
Pp. 213-221. 1959.
3. The use of machine-made webbing for Mediterranean trawlnets.
Proc.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit., (6):129-135. 1961.
4. Study of the Mediterranean otter-boards. Ibid, (7):103-137.
1963.
6. Labour-saving methods on board Mediterranean trawlers.
8. Designing an improved California tuna purse seine.
Fish.Industr.Res., 4 (5):183-207. (With R.E.Green), 1968.
9. Fishing surveys and commercial exploitation of deepwater
trawling grounds. In: Exploration of the Possible Deep-Water
Trawling Grounds in the Levant Basin (O.H.Oren, Ed.).
Stud.Rev.gen.Fish.Counc.Medit., (49):51-59. 1969.
10. A side-tracking neuston net. Mar.Biol., 6 (4):312-316
(With A.Herzberg, S.Pisanty, and A.Lourie), 1970.
12. A preliminary study in application of an airborne radiation
thermometer in fishery research. Fourth sci.Conf.Isr.ecol.Soc.,
I:69-103. (With S.Pisanty, J.Otterman, and R.Zach), 1973.
13. Technology research on a small budget. Fish.News Internat.,
12 (4):33-34.
14. The invasion of Saurida undosquamis (Richardson) into the
Levant Basin - an example of biological effect of inter-oceanic
canals. Fish.Bull.(USA), 72 (2):359-373. (With T.Glaser), 1974.
16. Design efficiency in purse seines. Wrld.Fish., 23 (7):48-54.
1974.
17. Mechanized gear handling on Mediterranean stern-trawlers.
Wrld.Fish., 32 (12):52-57. 1974.
18. Setting doors to save fuel - rules governing performance of
flat trawl boards. Wrld.Fish., 24 (3):15-30. 1975.
20. A note on the grey-mullet fishery in the Bardawil Lagoon
(North Sinai). Proceedings of the IBP/PM International Symposium
on Grey Mullet and their Culture, Haifa, 1974. Abstract:
Aquacult. 5:112. 1975.
22. *Fishing with Light - FAO Fishing Manuals. Fishing News Books Ltd. 150 pp. 1976.
23. The role of fishing technology in the development of inland
fisheries. Indo-Pacific Fishery Commission 17th Session, Colombo.
IPFC/76/SYM/50, FAO, Rome. 4 pp. 1976 & Proc.IPFC, 17(3):421-3. 1977
24. Community fishery centres and the transfer of technology to
small-scale fisheries. Indo-Pacific Fishery Commission 19th
Session. IPFC/80/SYMP/SP/2. FAO, Rome. 11 pp. 1980.
25. *Pair Trawling with Small Boats. FAO Training Series 1. With H.S.Noel). 77p. FAO, Rome. 1980.
26. *(Editor) Tuna Fishing with Pole and Line - FAO Fishing Manuals. Fishing News Books Ltd. 150 pp. 1980.
28. Methods of capture of grey mullet. Ibid. Pp. 313-334.(With E.Grofit). 1981.
29. Chapters: Ecology of fishing; Development of fishing methods in the
Land of Israel; Fishing vessels. In: I.Arnon (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Agriculture, Volume 4. The Encyclopedia of Agriculture Ltd., Tel-Aviv. Pp. 892-898 (In Hebrew). 1981.
32. Fishing gear selectivity and performance. FAO Expert Consultation on the Regulation of Fishing Effort (Fishing Mortality). FAO, Rome. WCFMD/Prep.1, Sess.2/Panel 2.3. 13 pp. (With D.B.Thomson). 1982.
33. Fishermen organizations and their special needs. Seminar on
Fisheries Development and Management in Nigeria.
NIR/77/001. FAO/UNDP, Lagos. 1983.
34. Technology transfer (I). Wrld.Fish., 33 (9):4-5. 1984. Technology transfer (II). Wrld.Fish., 33 (10):5-6. 1984.
35. *Fish Finding with Echosounders. FAO Training Series - 7. 98 pp. (With J.Burczynski). FAO, Rome. 1985.
40. Cooperatives. Wrld.Fish., 35 (6):38-39. 1986.
41. Up-grading Israel's obsolescent fleet. Ibid. 35 (10):18-19. 1986.
43. *Purse Seining with Small Boats. FAO Training Series - 13. 97 pp. FAO, Rome. 1987.
44. Automatic feeding for Israeli farms. Fish Farm.Internatl., 14 (4):12-13. 1987.
48. *Attracting Fish with Light. FAO Training Series - 14. 72 p. FAO, Rome. 1988.
49. Integration of fishing vessel instrumentation under a single
computer umbrella. Proceedings - World Symposium on Fishing Gear
and Fishing Vessel Design 1988. P.392-395. St.John's, Canada.
1988.
50. The role of small-scale fishing gear and techniques in development: challenges towards the year 2000. Ibid. P.449-453. St.John's, Canada. 1988.
53. Energy saving in small trawlers through improvements in propulsion systems. International Fisheries Energy Optimization Working Group. Vancouver, Aug. 28-30, 1989 Ibid. Session 4, Pap.4.3. (With A. Kohane). 1989.
54. Scope of low energy fishing in the present world fisheries context.
Pp.121-125 in: George, V.C. et al (Eds.). Low Energy Fishing. Fish.Technol. (Spec. issue: Proc.Natl.Workshop on Low Energy Fishing, Aug.8-9, 1991). Society of Fisheries Technologists, India. 1993
55. *Purse Seining - FAO Fishing Manuals. Fishing News Books by arrangement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. 1994. 406 p.
56. Tuna fishing – a review: (Part 1 – General), Infofish Internatl.
95(5):69-76. 1995.
57. Tuna fishing – a review: (Part 2 – Pole-and-line fishery), Infofish Internatl. 96(1):51-76. 1996.
58. Tuna longlining – a review: (Part 3). Infofish Internatl. 96(5):52-5; contd. in ibid. ¬96(6):51-54.1996.
61. Tuna purse-seining: recent developments. Infofish Internatl. 97(2):51-54. 1997.
62. Tuna fishing – a review: Part 4 – Purse seining. Infofish Internatl.
97(3):57-62. 1997.
64.. Chapters: Trawling: the basics; Fishing materials; Purse seining. In: Fisherman’s Manual. World Fishing. 1997. 64 p.
65. Middle Eastern marine environments: an overview of anthropogenic impacts. Pp. 365-374 in Albert, J., Bernhardson, M. and R.Kenna (Eds.). Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons. Bull.Series (103). Yale Univ., New Haven, USA. 1998.
66. Fisheries management: stealing the common. (A keynote lecture delivered at the St.John’s Conference of Harvesters in the North Atlantic Fisheries). Samudra (19):11-18. Jan., 1998.
68. Safety at sea: the tragedy of official default. Samudra (23):24-28, Sept.1999.
69. Risks and Dangers in Small-Scale Fisheries: an Overview. Sectoral Activities Programme. ILO, Geneva. 2000. 60 p.
73. Safety in small-scale fisheries: what is to be done? In: Lincoln, J.M. et al (Eds) Proceedings of the International Fishing industry Safety and Health Conference.
NIOSH, U.S. Dept of Health., Cincinati, OH, USA. (pubstaft@cdc.gov). 2002.
http://garysharp.org/MBYINK.html.
74. Fisheries management: Something has gone wrong. Samudra (34):29-32, March 2003. www.benyami.org.
75. Fisheries management: Hijacked by neoliberal economics. Samudra (35): 19-25, July 2003. www.benyami.org.
77.* Out of Fishermen’s Hands: The Evolution of Fishing Cultures. With G.Sharp and J.R.McGoodwin, 2004. 238p. http://garysharp.org.
78. The effect of climatic shifts on catch composition in the Mediterranean Fisheries of Israel. In: The Second Annual Conference of the Israeli Association of Aquatic Studies – Abstracts (2005). P.10.
Also many book reviews, and papers and articles published in Hebrew in the
Fishm.Bull. (Israel) and Fish.Fishbreed.Isr. between 1956 and 1985.
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“Menakhem Ben-Yami” – a monthly page in World Fishing, since 1994. Postings on FISHFOLK Internet discussion list since 1995.
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Many translations from Russian to English (all published by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Science Foundation). The main ones:
*Handbook of Fishing Gear and its Rigging, by N.N.Andreev.
454 pp. 1966.
*Fishing capacity of trawls, by V.A.Ionas. 57 pp. 1969.
*Trawls and Trawling, by Yu.N.Kostyunin. 143 pp. 1971.
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* - a book.
Contact me:
18 Alexander Penn St., Tel Aviv - 69641, ISRAEL
Ph. +972(54)-483-5928
benyami@actcom.net.il
Menakhem Ben-Yami, mainly self-taught fishing technologist and fishery ecologist, is a free-lance international fisheries development and management adviser and writer on fisheries matters. Following a naval service in Israel, in 1950 he started his career as a fisherman, then a fishing and naval skipper. He fished, commercially and experimentally, and conducted fishing surveys in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, the Central Atlantic Ocean, lakes and lagoons, using trawls, purse and beach seines, light-attraction, hooks and gillnets. In the late 1950s, when still a commercial fishing skipper, he was engaged by Israel’s Sea Fisheries Research Station to carry out, jointly with FAO, a major study of the Mediterranean trawl gear.
From 1960 to 1963, M. Ben-Yami worked as a Masterfisheman and Fisheries adviser in Eritrea, where he organised fishermen’s loan fund – a credit scheme based on mutual guaranty groups. From his next position of Chief of the Israeli Fisheries Technology Unit and, later, Director of the Fisheries Technology Division, he was called up in mid-1970s by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation to become a Fishery Industry Officer based at its HQ in Rome where he worked for 7 years. His fields of responsibilities was fishing technology and development of small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. During that period he visited and advised fisheries in many African, Central American and South American countries, as well as in Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Thailand, and many Caribbean and other oceanic islands.
In 1966, while on a fellowship in the USA, at the Southwest Fishery Center at LaJolla, CA, he developed and model tested a fast-sinking tuna (“hybrid”) purse seine. His design was then successfully tested by the Center in full-scale sea trials, and, reportedly, had a significant influence on the future California tuna purse seines, facilitating their use also for fishing skipjack on high seas. In later years, he was called for consultations and meetings participation by the U.S. Academy of Science, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the Smithsonian Institution, the Canadian Government’s Fisheries and Oceans, the Yale University Center for Middle East Studies, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Institute of Fisheries and Marine Technology, was a keynote speaker and presented papers on several international meetings, delivered many occasional lectures at universities and research institutes in Israel, USA, Russia, and Poland, and was giving courses in marine ecology at the Galilee College (Israel).
Since his early retirement from both the FAO and the Israeli Dept. of Fisheries, M.Ben-Yami has carried out numerous missions to 3rd World countries as consultant to FAO, IFAD, UNDP, GTZ, the Commonwealth of Nations, and IDRC, associated with development of small-scale fisheries, credit schemes, and allocation of fishery resources between small and larger scale fishery sectors. He traveled widely to visit fisheries also in many countries of Europe and both Americas.
M. Ben-Yami authored numerous technical reports, scientific papers, and articles* on various subjects of fishing technology and ecology, and fisheries development, as well as several FAO Fishing Manuals dealing with fishing with light, small-scale trawling and purse seining, FADs, tuna fishing with pole and line, and of FAO and IFAD manuals on development in fishing communities, cooperatives and other fisherfolk’s organisations and credit schemes in developing countries*. He translated for the U.S. Academy of Sciences and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries several Russian books and numerous papers in fisheries and marine science. He also designed and edited the PC-FISHELP - a computer expert program in fishing technology and vessel economics. Since 1994 he has been writing a personal column in the "World Fishing" magazine, and active on the FISHFOLK Internet discussion list. In 1999 he prepared major working papers for ILO (Safety of Small-Scale Fishing People - a World Review), and FAO (Socio-Cultural Aspects of Food Security – Eastern Nigeria case study). His and A.Gelman’s English-Russian/Russian- English Dictionary of Fisheries and Related Marine Terms was published by EASTFISH in December, 2001. Since 2000 he travelled to visit and advise fisheries in Australia, Florida, Ecuador, including Galapagos, North Ireland and the Faroe Islands. In parallel, as a member of the board of directors of the Coalition for Public Health, he has been deeply involved in the campaign against major industrial polluters of the Kishon River and the Kishon Fishing Harbour (Israel) on behalf of fishing people whose health has been affected by toxic pollution.
In 1996, following the publication by FAO and Fishing News Books of his "Purse Seining Manual", the Kaliningrad State Technical University awarded M.Ben-Yami “the scientific title of Doctor Honoris Causa for substantial contribution to development of fisheries science and to training of specialists”.