Pacific Herring
Clupea pallasii
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,534
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Conservation
- Data Deficient
Description
The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin. The distribution is widely along the California coast from Baja California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea; in Asia, the distribution is south to Japan, Korea, and China.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pacific herring”.