The herring spawn is an auspicious time on the South Coast. For some coastal First Nations, it represents the coming of spring and a time to gather food, while for conservationists it’s a time to take ...

PORTLAND, Maine (CBS/AP) — The East Coast herring fishing industry will be almost completely shut down for the rest of the year. Herring fishing is a major marine industry in New England, but the ...

When Kurt Irwin was growing up near Salt Spring Island on British Columbia’s southern coast, spring meant herring season. He remembers the ocean turning white as the small fish filled the harbours, ...

Dan Veerhusen in Sand Point last summer, preparing the Taurus for the herring season. Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government is giving the Atlantic herring fishing industry in four states more than $11 million to cope with instability in the fishery. A scientific assessment in ...

Herring that aren t used as bait sometimes end up as food in the form of canned fish, and it is also popular smoked, pickled or salted. Maine had its second-most productive herring fishing year since ...