Pacific Herring (IMAGE)

NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region

Pacific Herring

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Pacific herring and surf smelt, historically the two most abundant forage fish in Puget Sound, declined by as much as two orders of magnitude in the most heavily populated areas of the Sound.

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NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC

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