Ah, spring in the Puget Sound. Sunnier days, overflowing baskets of colorful flowers, and spawning season for Pacific herring. Pacific herring are a forage fish. Alongside surf smelt, Pacific sand ...

ABSTRACT: The bi-directional movements of materials, nutrients and energy across the land–sea interface result in a number of ecological consequences. Migratory animals that move across ecosystems ...

Under cover of night and in the surge of high tide, millions of Pacific herring move into bays and sheltered waters of the California coast to spawn this month. With silvery sides glinting in the ...

Independent fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about a disease she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to hemorrhage. Ms. Morton has called on the federal ...

ABSTRACT: Surf scoters Melanitta perspicillata are sea ducks that aggregate at spawning events of Pacific herring Clupea pallasi and forage on the eggs, which are deposited in abundance during spring ...

Most commercial fisheries for Pacific herring on the West Coast have been closed with the exception of harvests by First Nations for food and ceremonial purposes. Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray says ...

The Pacific herring run provides an exciting wildlife viewing opportunity you won’t want to miss. Herring travel in large schools. When they spawn in the San Francisco Bay, the sudden availability of ...

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 ...

Last spring, every news outlet had it: a daily, unfolding enviro-political struggle on the remote central B.C. coast, shown with world class 4K video and photography. The Heiltsuk First Nation in ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's coastal waters, finds a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...