pacific herring
Pacific herring is an important species because it consumes zooplankton and other small forage, and in turn becomes a signficiant food source for birds, large fish, and marine mammals. Herring spawn annually in specific spawning areas, and attach their eggs to sumbmerged aquatic vegetation, like eelgrass and macroalgae. Some herring populations appear to be declining.
Relationships
- broader: beach food webs and biodiversity
- related to: Beach Nourishment
- related to: Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- related to: callaway et al 1997
- related to: cherry point
- related to: discovery bay
- related to: eelgrass
- related to: forage fish
- related to: gustafson et al 2006
- related to: macroalgae
- related to: noaa
- related to: port angeles
- related to: port susan bay ecosystem
- related to: stick & lindquist 2009
- related to: syvitski et al 2005
- related to: wdfw
- related to: zelo et al 2000
- related to: Cherry Point Driftcell
- related to: Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding