Distribution and Characteristics of Herring Spawning Grounds and Description of Spawning Behavior

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Haegele, C. W., Schweigert, J. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1985
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Pacific; Norway; Kamchatka Peninsula; Iceland; Kamchatka; Northeast Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f85-261; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f85-261

Pacific herring (Clupea harengus pallasi) are winter–spring spawners which exhibit a south to north latitudinal dine in spawning time. In the eastern Pacific, major spawning populations are concentrated near San Francisco, in Puget Sound, and along the coasts of British Columbia and southeastern Ala...