Menakhem Ben-Yami – Page 3
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New China – an awaking giant
Like a giant awaking from a long sleep and storming into global reality, since its parting with orthodox communism China''s economy is growing almost exponentially, placing its technology, science, entrepreneurship, industry and international trade among the world''s leaders.
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Salmon fishing and a traumatic tale
Menakhem Ben-Yami reviews two very different fishing books.
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India: Too many fishermen?
Menakhem Ben-Yami looks into the stagnation of Gujarat''s fisheries.
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Warming up relations in cold waters
Back in 1867, President Andrew Johnson''s Secretary of State William Seward went shopping and returned home with a bargain: the whole and only Russian territory on the American continent – Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, which since 1859 was put on sale by the Russian Empire.
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Malice and grief in Southern waters
Menakhem Ben-Yami writes on the dangers fishermen face in Southern waters.
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FAO appraises tuna fisheries worldwide
Menakhem Ben-Yami takes a look at the global tuna industry.
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Women and children: Trials and tribulations
Menakhem Ben-Yami explores the plight of women and children in African fisheries.
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Catch shares – who to believe?
With the onset of the 21st century, the US fisheries management administered by NOAA Fisheries has been promoting and implementing individual and tradable quotas (ITQ), which with time gained a new name – ‘catch shares’.
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Pew drops anchor in Europe
The American NGO Pew Charitable Trusts is spending millions of dollars financing NGOs that deal with marine conservation by coming into public and legal conflicts with the American fishing industry and management, reports Menakhem Ben-Yami.
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Blowing in the wind
American commercial fisheries are feeling increasingly beleaguered. On top of being plagued for the last four years by the adverse catch-share system, they had been hurt by the mega-spill of oil in the Mexican Bay, severely injured by the recent hurricane Sandy and struggled, evidently in vain, to obtain their ...
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Onshore, inshore, offshore
The Offshore Mariculture Conference 2012 held in October in Izmir, Turkey, attracted participants from 35 countries worldwide and doubtless can be rated as successful.
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Can fisheries be managed rationally?
Menakhem Ben-Yami looks at the issue of fisheries management.
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Part 2: Overfishing? Not quite
It is common knowledge that pollution in the sea directly or indirectly affects fish and other marine organisms.
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Overfishing? Not quite
I don''t like the term overfishing. Not that overfishing doesn''t occur, but because this term is too often over-used and misused.
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From Doryman’s Days to great skipper’s life
A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Captain R Barry Fisher (1928-2001) had been to me a sort of an overseas ‘alter ego’.
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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.
