After 1950 traditional herring fisheries were revolutionized by a new technique: sonar, power block, larger
nets and bigger boats. As a result all major herring stocks in the North East Atlantic Ocean collapsed. The
most dramatic decline was that of the Atlanto-Scandian stock between Iceland and Norway from millions
of...
A study was undertaken in winter 1977-78 to obtain data on the
spawning stock of Pacific herring, Clupea harengua pallasi,utilizing the
Coos Bay estuary. This study centered on two objectives; (1) to record
the distribution and time of herring spawn and (2) estimate the fish
biomass spawning in Coos Bay....