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 ...

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 ...

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 2007 Cosco Busan disaster, which spilled 54,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay, had an unexpectedly lethal impact on embryonic fish, devastating a commercially and ecologically ...

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 ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 19, 2021 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is committed to responsibly managing Pacific herring fisheries to ensure the sustainability of the stock for today and generations to come ...

Now, you can love your seafood and eat it, too. But first, you'll have to catch it. Fisherman Kirk Lombard's new book, The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast, teaches the art, ...

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 ...