
A herring is a type of small oily fish found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. A smaller variant called the baltic herring lives in the Baltic Sea. Herring is one of various species of fishes of the genus Clupeidae especially the Atlantic herring (English herring) (''Clupea harengus''). Herrings move in vast schools (swarm), coming in spring to the shores of Europe and the Americas, where they are caught, salted and smoked in great quantities. A study conducted in 2003 at the University of British Columbia suggests that herrings might communicate by farting. [http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994343] [http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~bwilson/herring.html]. This study won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2004. ==Cuisine== Herring have been a staple food source, especially for northern Europeans, back to 3000 B.C.E. There are numerous ways the fish is served and many regional recipes. Herrings can be eaten raw, fermented, pickled (''See Pickled herring'') or cured by other techniques. A rollmops is a cured herring fillet, rolled up and preserved in vinegar which is flavoured with onions and spices. A kipper is a split and smoked herring, and a bloater is a whole smoked herring. Both are staples of British cuisine. A typical Dutch delicacy is raw herring (actually enzyme-cured) with raw shredded onions. To stop parasites, the herring has to be deep-frozen before the curing process. In Sweden, Baltic herring is fermented to make surströmming. Herring soup is also a traditional soup and in Germany, North Sea herring is pickled to make Matjes, or soused herring. Herring is also Canning and exported by many countries. A ''sild'' is an immature herring that are canned as sardines in Norway. Very young herring are called whitebait and are eaten whole as a delicacy. ==Herring lore== Figuratively, a ''red herring (fallacy)'' is a false lead in a mystery. In this context, ''red'' means smoked, and a smoked herring has such a strong smell that it can be used to create a false scent that causes hunting dogs to lose a trail.[[image:fischool2.jpg|frame|center|Fish school of herrings.]]
Here are videos of feeding juveniile herring, catching copepods: Atlantic herring.
==See also==
:Image:School.gif (looping) of a school of Atlantic herring ''Clupea harengus'' on its migration to their spawning grounds in the Baltic.
==External links==
Clupeidae
it's called "rollmops" as far as i know The image is hugely distracting - very jerky. Makes the article unreadable. Anyone mind if I put it on a separate page and link to it from here? User:Pcb21 User_talk:Pcb21 12:04, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Not at all - a 1.8MB video should be linked to - people on dial-up are at a huge disadvantage - even on broadband it is slow. User:GregRobson 20:41, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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A herring is a type of small oily fish found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. A smaller variant called the baltic herring lives in the Baltic Sea. Herring is one of various species of fishes of the genus Clupeidae especially the Atlantic herring (English herring) (''Clupea harengus''). Herrings move in vast schools (swarm), coming in spring to the shores of Europe and the Americas, where they are caught, salted and smoked in great quantities. A study conducted in 2003 at the University of British Columbia suggests that herrings might communicate by farting. [http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994343] [http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~bwilson/herring.html]. This study won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2004. ==Cuisine== Herring have been a staple food source, especially for northern Europeans, back to 3000 B.C.E. There are numerous ways the fish is served and many regional recipes. Herrings can be eaten raw, fermented, pickled (''See Pickled herring'') or cured by other techniques. A rollmops is a cured herring fillet, rolled up and preserved in vinegar which is flavoured with onions and spices. A kipper is a split and smoked herring, and a bloater is a whole smoked herring. Both are staples of British cuisine. A typical Dutch delicacy is raw herring (actually enzyme-cured) with raw shredded onions. To stop parasites, the herring has to be deep-frozen before the curing process. In Sweden, Baltic herring is fermented to make surströmming. Herring soup is also a traditional soup and in Germany, North Sea herring is pickled to make Matjes, or soused herring. Herring is also Canning and exported by many countries. A ''sild'' is an immature herring that are canned as sardines in Norway. Very young herring are called whitebait and are eaten whole as a delicacy. ==Herring lore== Figuratively, a ''red herring (fallacy)'' is a false lead in a mystery. In this context, ''red'' means smoked, and a smoked herring has such a strong smell that it can be used to create a false scent that causes hunting dogs to lose a trail.
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it's called "rollmops" as far as i know The image is hugely distracting - very jerky. Makes the article unreadable. Anyone mind if I put it on a separate page and link to it from here? User:Pcb21 User_talk:Pcb21 12:04, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Not at all - a 1.8MB video should be linked to - people on dial-up are at a huge disadvantage - even on broadband it is slow. User:GregRobson 20:41, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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Herring
Herringbone
Herringfleet
Herrings
Herrings,_New_York
Herring_Bay
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Herring_Cove,_Nova_Scotia
Herring_Gull
Herring_Gull
Herring_gull
Herring_Queen_Festival
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