When I was a small fry, vacationing at the Youth Hostel on Martha’s Vineyard, my family spent an afternoon paddling up Herring Run Creek. When we reached shallow water and got out to push, we noticed ...

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has announced an increase in the total allowable catch (TAC) of both ...

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 ...

A plan decades in the making to bring migratory river herring back to the Blackstone River cleared a major hurdle with ...

"After a long winter, the arrival of fresh herring eggs felt 'like Christmas' for the whole community." ...

Herring, which primarily feed on plankton, have been found to have genetically evolved to prey on other fish after facing difficulties in food competition. A research team led by Professor Leif ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by.

Every winter, a small fleet of commercial fishing boats sets gillnets in the San Francisco Bay. Their target: Pacific herring, which enter the estuary in huge numbers to spawn and are easily caught by ...

The Pacific herring—an oily, silvery, schooling fish—is rarely high on the list of marine animals people fret about. But for the second straight year, the Canadian government has ignited a skirmish in ...

ALBANY — The days of anglers taking as many herring as they can catch from the Hudson River, something that dates back to the Colonial era, may be coming to an end. Have a say Comments can on proposed ...

In an ominous environmental sign, state regulators this week closed all herring fishing in San Francisco Bay for the first time ever, shutting down the last commercial fishery in the Bay. A 6-inch, ...