abstract: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.
Eleven species of mammals and sea creatures, says the council, have still not recovered, including the Pacificherring, which has returned only in small numbers.
One of the ongoing problems that will be discussed at the conference by Kevin Stokesbury of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is how a viral infection triggered by exposure to the oil has decimated Prince William Sound's stocks of Pacificherring.