TAXONOMY
On the biological classification of the herring and the taxonomic can of worms it opens up at species level and below
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