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Pacific Herring

Clupea pallasii

Classification

Family
Clupeidae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 147,434United States of America · 664