One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
An oil-rich sea fish, also smoked as kippers.
An oil-rich fish usually sold whole. Can be poached, fried or grilled as well as pickled, marinated, salted and smoked.
valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
a soft-finned fish that is often preserved through a salting and slow smoking process
a commercially important food fish. It is used as fillet offering when fishing for Coho and Chinook. The herring is elongated with a blue back and white belly.
A small, silvery fish that swims in large schools.
Herrings are small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Pacific, and the Mediterranean.