The Togiak sac roe herring fishery used to draw hundreds of fishermen. “It was like a gold rush,” said Frank Woods, who lives in Dillingham and started fishing for Togiak herring in the mid-1980s.

Efforts to decolonize the herring roe harvest in Alaska highlight the contrast between tribal subsistence practices and the Department of Fish and Game’s management strategy. Once, you could plunge a ...

A little silver fish — the Atlantic sea herring — is causing a ruckus in New England fishery management circles. That's because the population has shrunk dramatically. A number of the Cape's small ...

River herring are absent from the Blackstone River due to dams and past pollution. A plan exists to allow fish passage around the first four dams on the lower Blackstone River to Lonsdale Marsh.