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Herring key food for land-based species: study

2014 January 112024 July 8

Sarah Petrescu / Times Colonist
Scientists on Vancouver Island have for the first time linked spawning Pacific herring, a well-known marine food fish, to the health of land creatures big and small…

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Seeing red over British Columbia’s herring fishery

2011 November 282024 July 8

Other than salmon, few species in BC hold the ecological, cultural and economic importance of Pacific herring. A decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada puts them at risk.

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Winter herring quota could be ‘catastrophic’

2011 November 172024 July 8

Island Tides
November 17-30, 2011

In early November, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation wrote to Minister of Fisheries Keith Ashfield, expressing doubt that the resident herring populations were taken into account in the quota decision…

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