If you can find it, choose a sustainable source, labelled with the MSC blue tick. Herring is available year ... firm and slippery fish. Mackerel or sardines can be used as a substitute in recipes ...

Herring is a white fish that hatches in freshwater but spends most of its life in the ocean. Herring can be found in oceans around the world, but the vast majority of herring are caught in the ...

Environmentalists say the sea area where the fish have spawned ... It was accompanied by a lighter blue colouration, visible from the shore, which was caused by herring sperm.

Old Polish cuisine is well-known for its abundance of fish dishes, and foreign visitors have long observed that the art of preparing the little fellows was at a very high level of sophistication in ...

For a small fish, herring has had a big impact on human societies of the North Atlantic. It was “the most remarkable of fish”, according to James Travis Jenkins in his 1927 book, The Herring ...

Tinned fish is having its big moment. If you're up for trying tinned herring, you may be surprised to know it's ready to eat straight from the can.

Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by ...

A comparison of the fast-growing fish-eating Baltic herring (Slåttersill in Swedish) and slow-growing plankton-eating spring- and autumn-spawning Baltic herring. Photo: Leif Andersson.