Species
Clupea pallasii (Pacific herring)
Clupea pallasii. Photo: (c) Karolle Wall, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
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. Clupea pallasii is considered a keystone species because of its very high…
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