The Herring Journal

Location: Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM • Monday, September 28 Protect Herring. Defend...

Pacific herring conservation may depend on more than simply maintaining enough fish. "Age structure and diversity of...

Stz’uminus Elder and longtime fisherman Ray Harris remembers a Salish Sea very different from the one many people know...

Dear Herring School, It has been a very busy six months for the HCRS (Herring Conservation & Restoration Society)...

The Saturna Island Marine Research & Education Society (SIMRES) is hosting a Herring School presentation on...

There was male milt in the water, there was male milt frothed up and laid on all the rockweed….but not an egg to find.
Until we found a clue, a tiny broken piece of Japanese Sargassum covered in eggs.

The W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs have received a legal opinion confirming a path forward to defend their Douglas Treaty right to fish “as formerly,” including seeking a moratorium on the commercial herring fishery in the Strait of Georgia. With legal work now underway and scientists, Elders, and community supporters mobilizing to gather evidence, this effort represents a critical moment to stand for herring, Indigenous law, and the long-term health of the Salish Sea. Your membership donations and community support will help carry this work forward in the months ahead.

ADIMS invites you to a fundraising event March 12, 2026 in support of the W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chiefs’ legal challenge of DFO’s management of the herring fishery.

Précis of DFO Bulletins with Observations by Jim Shortreed

Celebrate the Herring on March 5–7, 2026, with sea life viewing boat tours, films, art, music, and powerful presentations from W̱SÁNEĆ Hereditary Chief W̱IĆKINEM Eric Pelkey, author Briony Penn, and many more.

Your voices at the HELIT TŦE SȽOṈ,ET (Let the Herring Live) Forum in February have been heard. One of the leading...

The DFO has released their Draft Integrated Fisheries Management Plan for Pacific Herring for the 2025/2026 season....