The Pacific herring—an oily, silvery, schooling fish—is rarely high on the list of marine animals people fret about. But for the second straight year, the Canadian government has ignited a skirmish in ...

A salmon conservation group is raising concerns about reported increases in wild fish deaths, primarily herring, in British Columbia's open-net fish farms. An Atlantic salmon is seen during a ...

ANACORTES — The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. “Scoters,” Sherman Anderson said. “Three of them. At 11 o’clock.

In an ominous environmental sign, state regulators this week closed all herring fishing in San Francisco Bay for the first time ever, shutting down the last commercial fishery in the Bay. A 6-inch, ...

Just as daffodils and groundhogs, cherry trees and robins announce the arrival of spring elsewhere, so the sac roe herring fishery spells the end of winter here in Sitka, Alaska. Seine boats with ...

Every winter, a small fleet of commercial fishing boats sets gillnets in the San Francisco Bay. Their target: Pacific herring, which enter the estuary in huge numbers to spawn and are easily caught by ...

Hundreds of thousands of wild fish have died at British Columbia salmon farms in recent years, with an operator blaming the kills on the “learning curve” associated with new machinery to remove sea ...