Range extension of the Atlantic herring Clupea harengus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) southern part of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
2019
Bañón, R. (Rafael) | Punzón, A. (Antonio) | Barros-García, D. (David) | Alejandro de Carlos
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. The atlantic herring Clupea harengus linnaeus, 1758 is apelagic clupeid, schooling, plankton-feeding species that inhabitsthe coastal areas from inshore to well offshore waters, at depthsto 200 m (Whitehead, 1986). This target species has been crucialfor food security and economic development in northern europe(Martinez-Barrio et al., 2016). Its fishery currently ranks among thefive largest fisheries in the world, with nearly 2 million tons of fishlanded annually in the last years (Fao, 2010-2019).This species is distributed on both sides of the north atlanticocean. In the western atlantic, it ranges from labrador to capeHatteras; in the eastern atlantic, from the northern part of theBay of Biscay to Greenland, and to the east into the Barentssea (Whitehead, 1985, 1986). In the northeastern atlantic, alarge number of intraspecific groups (races, stocks, and populations) are distinguished by their spawning grounds and seasons, otolith morphology and meristic characters (Berg et al.,2017).
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