Herring key food for land-based species: study
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…
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…
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.
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…