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 ...

In Sitka, the herring-egg harvest is enshrined in an early Tlingit story: A woman sang to the herring in Sitka Sound, then fell asleep on a rock. While she slept, the herring laid eggs in her hair ...

Tons of herring are scooped up in seining nets in Sitka Sound, then transferred to processing boats where lines of workers slit each fish open, remove any egg sacs present, and toss out the herring ...

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.

The herring that return to Vancouver Island each spring attract birds, whales, sea lions, and even bears to feast on the energy-rich fish or their eggs. Fishing for Roe It's against this backdrop ...

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.

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. ALBANY — Aiming to ...

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 ...

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 ...