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A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
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Fish in the family Clupeidae.
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Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
Examples of herring in a Sentence
The chief industry is the herring fishery.
The herring, cod, lobster and crab fisheries are prosecuted.
Deep-sea and coast fishing for cod, herring and mackerel employ over 1000 of the inhabitants.
Fish taken in the lakes include perch, pike, char and trout in Windermere, Ennerdale, Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, &c., and the gwyniad or fresh-water herring in Ullswater.
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The spawn of the herring is adhesive, and is deposited on rough gravelly ground at varying distances from the coast and always in comparatively shallow water.
Many economic changes probably occurred in consequence of the variations in tide-generating force, as, for instance, the decline in the mediaeval Baltic herring fisheries controlled by the Hanseatic League.
Dunkirk annually despatches a fleet to the Icelandic codfisheries, and takes part in the herring and other fisheries.
Herring, then archbishop of York, with whom he remained until it was safe to return to Edinburgh.
Sealskins and other furs, and whale and seal oil, are exported, and the herring fishery is very productive.
The New York fisheries of Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Niagara and St Lawrence rivers yielded products in 1903 valued at $187,198 and consisting largely of pikeperch, herring, catfish, bullheads and sturgeon, and in 1902 there were commercial fisheries in sixteen interior lakes and rivers which yielded muscallonge, smelt, bullheads, pickerel, pike-perch and several other varieties having a total value of $87,897.
In the Baltic, where the water is gradually losing its saline constituents, thus becoming less adapted for the development of marine species, the herring continues to exist in large numbers, but as a dwarfed form, not growing either to the size or to the condition of the North-Sea herring.
The township had important herring fisheries in early times and manufactured straw hats (from 1828) and ladies' dress goods.
A red herring pulled across the trail could divert the hounds onto a false path.
This line of argument is a complete red herring.
Main ingredients include chicken meal, brown rice, herring oil, sunflower oil, chicken fat, and vitamins and minerals.
There are an extensive mackerel and herring fishery, and motor engineering works.
The fishery then assumes proportions which render it next in importance to the herring and cod fisheries.
By the peace of Copenhagen in 1441, after the unsuccessful war of the League with Holland, the attempted monopoly of the Baltic was broken, and, though the Hanseatic trade regulations were maintained on paper, the Dutch with their larger ships increased their hold on the herring fisheries, the French salt trade, and the Baltic grain trade.
The Council of State, being mainly anxious to destroy the Dutch trade and fisheries, began by reinforcing Blake, and sending him north to scatter the Dutch herring fleet.
But no other species equals the common herring in importance as an article of food or commerce.
Formerly it was the general belief that the herring inhabits the open ocean close to the Arctic Circle, and that it migrates at certain seasons towards the northern coasts of Europe and America.
The herring of the American side of the Atlantic is specifically identical with that of Europe.
The great catches are herring, cod and ling, but lobsters and crabs are also exported in large quantities.
The great development of its herring fishery in the latter part of the 18th century gave a new impulse to the city's trade, which was kept up by the influence of the "Continental System," under which Gothenburg became a depot for the colonial merchandise of England.
The blue pike, whitefish and herring, obtained on Lake Erie are of;,;, considerable commercial importance.
The catch of herring was twice as much in 1908 as in 1907 and that of whitefish nearly four times as much in 1908 as in 1907; this increase was attributed to the work of the state hatcheries.
The herring, cod, flatfish, mackerel and sprat are taken in the seas, and also great numbers of a small herring called striimnaing.
There is also a herring which frequents only the southern half of the Caspian, not passing over the shallow part of the sea which extends from Baku eastwards.
Large quantities of herring, plaice and halibut are also taken.
Excellent profit is made in certain parts of the island from the herring fishery; this is especially the case on the east coast.
The principal native products exported are live sheep, horses, salt meat, wool and hides, to which must be added the fish products - cod, train-oil, herring and salmon - eiderdown and woollen wares.
The pursuit of cod, mackerel, herring and halibut fills up, with a winter coasting trade, the round of the year.
Mackerel was a relatively unimportant catch until about 1821, and since then has been an important but unstable return; halibut fishing has been vigorously pursued since about 1836 and herring since about 1856.
Trout are found in the rivers, and a small herring in Lake Van.
In times past whitebait were considered to be peculiar to the estuary of the Thames; and, even after the specific identification of Thames whitebait with the young of the herring and sprat, it was still thought that there was a distinctive superiority in its condition and flavour.
Indeed, Thames whitebait which have been compared with that from the mouth of the Exe, the Cornish coast, Menai Strait, and the Firth of Forth seemed to be better fed; but, of course, the specific characteristics of the herring and sprat - into which we need not enter here - were nowise modified.
When the view commenced to gain ground that whitebait were largely young herring, the question arose whether or not the immense destruction of the young brood caused by this mode of fishing injuriously affected the fishery of the mature herring.
This perhaps it does; but, since it has been ascertained that the herring is much more restricted in its migrations than was formerly believed, and that the shoals are to a great extent local, the injury, such as it is, must be local and limited to the particular district in which the fishing for whitebait is methodically practised.
During the Hanseatic period it was the most important commercial town on the Sound, but in the 16th and 17th centuries greatly lost ground owing to the decay of its herring fisheries and the rise of its rival, Copenhagen.
The herring industry used large quantities of fuel, as did baking, brewing and simply keeping warm.
The stores, which were used in the heyday of the herring fishing industry, had become an eyesore on the harbor front.
The best-known case is herring gull versus lesser black-backed gull.
Choose from Orkney cheese, smoked salmon, hot cured salmon or marinated herring, to further enhance that local flavor.
A boat had been out in the dawn catching herring.
In the Czech Republic itâs ' pickled herring ' .
Find out how to gut and smoke herring to make the famous Manx kippers.
However, the report by ICES covers all fish stocks and some, including mackerel and herring, are in a reasonably healthy state.
Next best includes pollock, Cape hake, coley, herring and line-caught mackerel from Cornwall (in season now ).
In such contexts, research into the safety issues becomes a red herring.