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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. In the late 1950s he was
engaged by Israel's Sea Fisheries Research Station to carry out, jointly
with FAO, a major study of the Mediterranean trawl gear.
Dr. Ben-Yami has worked as a
Masterfisheman and Fisheries adviser in Eritrea, he was Chief of the
Israeli Fisheries Technology Unit, and spent 7 years as Fishery Industry
Officer for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. He has worked with
the Southwest Fishery Center at LaJolla, California, USA and 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.
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.
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. Recently, 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 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". 
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