[ CLUPEA PALLASII ] 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.

Pacific herring spend most of their eight-year lifespan at sea, but come into the San Francisco Bay to spawn. It is the most important herring spawning area south of British Columbia.

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, a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...

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 ...

Pacific herring is a commercially and ecologically important species. The fish travel in large schools, typically from the San Francisco Bay north to the Bering Sea, and serve as a forage fish for ...

The San Francisco Bay’s once-bountiful Pacific herring fishery dropped off precipitously around 2015, an event blamed on overfishing and unfavorable ocean conditions.

K lemtu, C anada—On British Columbia’s Central Coast, a rare robust stock of Pacific herring can still be found in Kitasu Bay. Every March, herring inject their milky white roe into quiet bays ...

Pacific herring in this northern part of the Salish Sea, where the Átl’ḵa7tsem claw sits, appear to be faring better in general than those farther south, ...