Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by ...

NOAA Fisheries has announced a significant reduction in Atlantic herring catch limits for 2025, effective January 1, 2025, in response to a recent stock assessment indicating that the herring biomass ...

A new study reveals a genetically distinct type of Baltic herring that thrives on a fish diet, unlike its Atlantic counterpart. This adaptation has likely occurred due to the unique conditions of the ...

Atlantic herring from Norway, Prepared or preserved in airtight containers, EUMOFA Norway Prepared or preserved, in airtight containers view December 5th, 2024 Atlantic herring, Norway (NSC ...

The study challenges traditional assumptions about how Baltic herring evolved and found new ecological niches in brackish ...

The discovery was made by Swedish scientists from the University of Uppsala, Sweden - as they have now proven a significant ...

For a small fish, herring has had a big impact on human societies of the North Atlantic. It was “the most remarkable of fish”, according to James Travis Jenkins in his 1927 book, The Herring ...

The nets are set and pulled with a catch of about 250 000 Atlantic herrings. Everything is done by hand and very demanding. The herrings are shaken from the nets and taken ashore in baskets.

They show that it is possible to cross-fertilize the two spawning ‘types’ of herring (Clupea harengus) found in the north-east Atlantic, one of which spawns in the spring, the other in the autumn.

Atlantic and Baltic herring have a key role in the ecosystem, acting as a critical link between plankton production and other organisms, like predatory fish, sea birds, sea mammals, and humans ...