The sunlight bounces off the glassy surface of Sitka Sound as community herring fish egg harvesters navigate the waters with boats loaded with hemlock branches for the fish to lay eggs on ...

Feature August 29, 2022 This Tiny Fish Holds Together Ecosystems and Cultures—It’s Also Under Threat The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is fighting to protect the Pacific herring, challenging the idea ...

Efforts to decolonize the herring roe harvest in Alaska highlight the contrast between tribal subsistence practices and the Department of Fish and Game’s management strategy.

The spectacle of herring spawn—adult fish returning to these shores to blanket tens of thousands of eggs with a milky, turquoise cloud of seminal fluid known as milt—is over in a matter of days.

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone River. That might change.

Pacific herring stocks are shadows of their former abundance. But the Canadian government wants to reopen fishing off British Columbia.

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 ...

You know how good fish is for your health, but that's only true if you're eating the right kind. Here are the ones to feast on—and ones to avoid.

A vast herring spawning ground off Scotland’s west coast has been spotted from space. Researchers used underwater cameras to film the eggs, off Wester Ross, after light blue plumes were picked ...

This new "wedgewire" screen system will keep shad, herring and other fish from being sucked into the Empire State Plaza cooling system which draws water from the Hudson River.

Superior's herring are prized by commercial fishermen for their fillets and eggs, which can be made into a caviar. They are key prey of lake trout, walleye and other popular game and predator fish.