Profile updated on 11 July 2017
SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)
Clupea harengus
SPECIES NAME(s)
Atlantic herring
COMMON NAMES
Atlantic herring
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) is widely distributed in the Northwest and Northeast Atlantic. Within the Northeast Atlantic, they are distributed from the northern Bay of Biscay to Greenland, and east into the Barents Sea. In the Northwest Atlantic they are distributed from South Carolina to Labrador. Adult fish are pelagic and are found mostly in continental shelf seas to depths of 200 m deep.
Herring is numerically one of the most important pelagic species in several North Atlantic ecosystems and intensive exploitation goes back several centuries. Stocks have fluctuated enormously in the past. The Baltic herring is sometimes considered as a subspecies of the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), adapted to brackish water. The Baltic herring grows more slowly and has a lower fat content than the Atlantic herring.
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