Herring

The herring is a type of small oily fish found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic. A smaller variant called the baltic herring lives in the Baltic Sea.

Related Topics:
Oily fish - Atlantic - Baltic Sea

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The herring is composed of nearly 200 species that are grouped together under the genus Clupea, the most abundant of which is the Atlantic herring (English herring) (Clupea harengus). Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are caught, salted and smoked in great quantities.

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Clupea - Atlantic herring - English herring - School - Europe - America

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A study conducted in 2003 at the University of British Columbia suggests that herrings might communicate by flatulence.

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2003 - University of British Columbia - Flatulence

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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994343

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http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~bwilson/herring.html. This study won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2004.

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