The gulls were swarming by the shore and the excited barking of sea lions all but confirmed for fishermen getting out of their cars at the Ferry Point parking lot last Sunday that the email and text ...

When I was a small fry, vacationing at the Youth Hostel on Martha’s Vineyard, my family spent an afternoon paddling up Herring Run Creek. When we reached shallow water and got out to push, we noticed ...

A little silver fish — the Atlantic sea herring — is causing a ruckus in New England fishery management circles. That's because the population has shrunk dramatically. A number of the Cape's small ...

It was 1988 at the end of spring and dawn of summer in Togiak, Alaska, as fishermen lined the docks, eagerly awaiting the start of herring season. With only a half-hour window to fish that day, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’d estimate, conservatively, I’ve listened to 40 seminars on spring chinook fishing in the lower Columbia and Willamette rivers in the past three decades. I have notes from more than 30 presentations ...

PEMBROKE – On a Wednesday morning, Samantha Dempsey and her three children arrived at the Pembroke Historical Herring Run Park by 9 a.m. for their sixth visit this spring. Mikey, 5, ran ahead of his ...

The Sitka Sac Roe Herring Fishery likely won’t happen this year. That’s according to a statement released last week by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Weak markets and smaller-than-average ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP)-- New Jersey environmental officials have shut down the state's river herring fishery. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the decision made late this week came in part because ...

The arrival of herring signals the start of Alaska’s spring fisheries, and this year’s catch levels from each of the three main areas are record breakers. Combined harvests from three prime producing ...