HERRING’S HEAD On the traditional song, collected across the British Isles, celebrating the ways the herring underpins everything of social importance
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
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
