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Fishing News International's Person of the Year award is a distinction awarded to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the international fishing industry -- and this year's recipient is richly deserving of this honor.

It's a pleasure and an honor to be able to write an appreciation of the work of Menakhem Ben-Yami .

Selecting him as our Man of the Year isn't quite the case this time, as his contributions to fishing span many decades, going back to the start of his fishing career as a skipper in 1950 and taking in his work for the FAO and so much else.

Normally,