SINGING THE FISHING Always at the forefront of documentary innovation, the herring swims through the great Radio Ballad of 1960
SHOALS OF HERRING, THE Written for the BBC's Radio Ballads, a song by Ewan McColl which has entered the traditional music repertoire and is sung by many
DRIFT OR GILL NETTING On the nets used by drifters in a largely abandoned, but sustainable method of catching herring now developed unsustainably elsewhere
ZUYDERZEE Home to a once distinct population of inshore herrings lost to the dyke building tendencies of The Netherlands
