The first waves of turquoise blue Pacific herring spawn have appeared off the west coast of Vancouver Island in 2025, as fish return in big numbers.

UVic researchers are using satellites in a novel way to help track the spectacular herring spawning that occurs each spring off Vancouver Island, bringing turquoise waves to Island shores.

But the phenomenal annual spawning events of the Pacific herring, which often aggregate densely along the Richmond and downtown San Francisco shorelines, have been losing their grandeur.

Along with studies of the importance of herring spawn as a habitat feature for migrating surf scoters (see link), we have been investigating the role of herring spawn as a nutrient source for ...

"A real mystery." Researchers issue warning after discovering concerning pattern along US coastline: 'Something is going on, ...

Critics, including First Nations and conservationists, are calling for a moratorium on the herring harvest this year, arguing ...

The herring narrowly escaped extinction in the late twentieth century and while some populations, such as the Norwegian spring-spawning herring, have recovered to healthy levels, others continue to be ...

But herring aren’t predictable prey. Their numbers can vary dramatically from year to year, and they don’t live in the fjords year-round. They spawn along the coast in the spring, disperse ...

Three Southeast Alaskans delivered “traditional knowledge reports” to the Alaska Board of Fisheries this week (2-3-25). It’s the first time Indigenous perspective has been officially incorporated into ...

Groups are working to shut down a local fishery they say has potential to endanger not just the herring it fishes, but the ...