[ 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.

This is part of the Tlingit herring-egg harvest. Every spring for thousands of years, as migrating Pacific herring arrive along Alaska’s southeastern coast, Native harvesters have cast young ...

Schools of Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, venture into the bay each year between March and November, and hold for a time in deep water to prepare for spawning.

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 ...

A herring war is about to begin. Local commercial fishermen and state biologists have proposed tight restrictions on recreational harvest of Pacific herring, which gather in thick masses in San ...

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 ...

Pacific herring and pigeon guillemots, a small seabird, are the only species listed as "not recovering" by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, formed to oversee restoration of the injured ...