SMOKEHOUSE TALES: GERRY SKEWS
A new Lowestoft smoker, an old smokehouse and red herrings among the kippers, bloaters and many other hot and cold smoked products
SMOKEHOUSE TALES: WILL BUCKENHAM
One of the last red herring smokers, Will Buckenham in Lowestoft produces these, along with bloaters and kippers in the country's oldest working smokehouse
SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
Charles I, The Stuarts, Maritime sovereignty, the herring and the building of a flagship
SPAWNING
On the spawning preferences of the herring, together with a list of the spawning grounds for the main Eastern Atlantic populations
SUFFERING SALTWORKERS OF SHIELDS
C19th/C20th Scottish herring industry dominance linked to the Siege of Newcastle and suffering South Shields saltworkers
SURSTRÖMMING
On the Swedish herring delicacy which defies delicacy, insisting upon schnapps and communal singing in the face of its intimations of mortality
SVETOVIDOV
On the Russian fish systematist who, having dealt the gadoid species, turned his great mind to the clupeidae
SWIFT, JONATHAN
Jonathan Swift' reply to Francis Grant, on a proposed Anglo-Irish herring fishery scheme (There is not virtue enough left among mankind)
TAXONOMY
On the biological classification of the herring and the taxonomic can of worms it opens up at species level and below
The Art of Gutting Fish (5 of 6)
Fishwives? Fisher lasses? Herring girls? Herring lasses? Lots of them! Plus an interview with artist Penelope Payne on her herring lass works...
TOURISM: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
On AC Hardy's proposal for a herring research centre and William Hodgson's brief vision of what might have been a formidable tourist attraction
TRAWLING
On the development of beam trawling which doesn't target herring (but destroys their spawning grounds) and pelagic trawling which does
ULLAPOOL
The story of a herring port, built with what seemed the best of intentions, but without consideration for the fish's noted unreliability
VENTJAGER
How they got the good new herring from somewhere off the coast of Scotland to wealthy Dutch burghers fresh from a hard day of being painted by Rembrandt
WEDGWOOD
In which we lust after that object of desire, the Wedgwood Queen's Ware herring dish (c 1780)
What’s in a Name? (3 of 6)
Carousel, Biggie Smalls & Angus Watson; taxonomy, racial theory & global warming: a herring tale in 8 fitts with 8 hand-crafted limericks.
WHEN HERRINGS LIVED ON DRY LAND
A curious Estonian folk song telling us both why the herring swims in the sea and why the sea is salty
WHITE HERRING
On the nature of white herring, its international markets and its historical underachievement with the Great British public
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS: FISH
The great American modernist, his poem, 'Fish' and his form with herring imagery
WITCHCRAFT
The role of herrings in England's penultimate witch trial and the subsequent part the narrative played in shaping the hysteria in Salem
X, CRUX OR KRUIS BRAND
An entry that possibly should have been filed under C, but which spuriously allows alphabetic completism
YAWL
On the nature of the boat known as a yawl and the difference between the Norwegian and Scarborough versions
ZOOLOGY
Heavily reliant on the zoological description of the Soviet systematist AN Svetovidov, an account of what a herring is
ZULU
A compromise between the Fifie and the Scaffie, a boat with a popular design which didn't adapt well to the introduction of steam
ZUYDERZEE
Home to a once distinct population of inshore herrings lost to the dyke building tendencies of The Netherlands