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This little fish causes a scene this time of year, and sometimes local whale activity

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 ...
The Nation

This Tiny Fish Holds Together Ecosystems and Cultures—It’s Also Under Threat

Net positive? Paul Salomone, a fisheries management biologist, samples herring to help determine whether the fishery should be opened for the day. (Nathaniel Wilder) On a drizzly March afternoon in ...
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Pacific herring Clupea pallasii and wrack macrophytes subsidize semi-terrestrial detritivores

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 ...
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Keeping an eye on herring, a small fish with a big impact on the Pacific's ecosystem

The Howe Sound Marine Stewardship Initiative and the Squamish First Nation have teamed up to study Pacific herring, a species which almost went extinct in the 1960s but has made a comeback in recent ...