herring: Quick Facts

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Illustration of an Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus harengus), showing a slender, silvery fish with a forked tail and single dorsal fin.

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Atlantic herring Chirocentridae skipjack herring Pacific herring alewife pickled herring surströmming fish eel lungfish shark sturgeon salmon ray seahorse tuna catfish mackerel

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