Menakhem Ben-Yami

• Little fish - big noise

  The recently published report by Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force (LFFTF), entitled Little Fish – Big Impact that glows in some media, calls for cutting the catch of forage fish by half. 10 May 2012 - World Fishing

• Logbook of a fisherman's wife - a fishing lore saga

  I have recently finished reading a book by Michele Longo Eder - a fisherman's wife from Newport, Oregon. 04 Apr 2012 - World Fishing

• PROFISH: Is it also pro-fishermen?

  In 2005 the World Bank (WB) created the Global Partnership on Fisheries (PROFISH) in association with key donors and stakeholders. 06 Mar 2012 - World Fishing

• Back to slavery

  Things are going from bad to worse. Over six years ago (WF June 2005) I wrote here about low-paid and badly treated "foreigners" onboard large, distant-water fishing vessels, some of which flying FOC (flag-of-convenience) and some IUU (Illegal, unreported and unregulated). 02 Feb 2012 - World Fishing

• Ditching a fishing boat? No problem – just follow the rules

  I started my marine career as a wireless operator. An upcoming ‘sparker’, as we were fondly called by other seamen, one of the first subjects they taught me at maritime school was how to react to safety problems and, in particular, when yours or other ship was in distress. 17 Jan 2012 - World Fishing

• Fisheries management – the Japanese way

  I last wrote on Japan in the World Fishing & Aquaculture May issue, following the series of disasters - earthquake, tsunami and the Fukushima meltdown. Since then, the surviving NE Japan's fishermen and its fishing industry have been struggling to stay afloat and gradually return to anything that resembles normality. 17 Nov 2011 - World Fishing

• Traditional management: can it be revived?

  In the 1980s the National Fisherman, an American fisheries journal featured a column written by an East Coast fisherman Captain Perc Sane. 12 Oct 2011 - World Fishing

• The rowdy mackerel

  A not a very reader-friendly chapter called Mackerel in the Northeast Atlantic (combined Southern, Western, and North Sea spawning components) from a recent ICES report describes in almost 6,000 words the status of mackerel stocks. 08 Sep 2011 - World Fishing

• Fishermen, scientists, managers and environmental advocacy

  This is a story of distrust that developed sometime during the second half of the 20th century and that keeps on ravaging the very foundations of the world's fishery industry. 02 Aug 2011 - World Fishing

• Marine farming in the world's oceans

  Ocean Yearbook is a big volume, produced jointly by The International Ocean Institute (IOI), an NGO founded in 1972 by Professor Elisabeth Mann Borgese and based at the University of Malta, with 22 international Operational Centres all over the world, and the Marine and Environmental Institute at the Dalhousie University, Canada. 06 Jul 2011 - World Fishing

• Seeking remedy for management maladies

  For many years now I have written and lectured on the inadequacy of official fisheries science, pointing to the absence of environmental parameters from the commonly employed models of fish populations dynamics. 07 Jun 2011 - World Fishing

• Fishery economists: What have they learnt and what are they telling us?

  The International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), is an international group of economists, government managers, private industry members, and others interested in the exchange of research and information on marine resource issues. 11 May 2011 - World Fishing

• Japanese fisheries: Cataclysms in series

  The dramatic news flew in nonstop; first a powerful earthquake, among the strongest recorded worldwide, shook the north-eastern coastal area of Japan on 11 March, writes Menakhem Ben-Yami. 13 Apr 2011 - World Fishing

• GE-salmon – blessing or monster-fish?

  Both, the monster created by Shelley's fictional Frankenstein character and the legendary Golem of Prague created by Rabbi Maharal, were made of dead material and put to life by magic. 09 Mar 2011 - World Fishing

• Marine Protected Areas: What do they do to fishermen?

  No one can dispute the need for nature reserves or Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in certain marine and coastal habitats such as coral reefs, sponge and inshore seagrass beds, and some other endangered or unique habitats, the same as unique areas are protected on land. 14 Feb 2011 - World Fishing