SHOALS
On an evolutionary strategy aimed at dealing with predation, which didn't imagine the purse seine net or the unregulated pursuit of profit
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
SILVER HERRING
Somewhere between the modern bloater and the golden herring, popular in the Mediterranean - particularly in Italy
SINGING THE FISHING
Always at the forefront of documentary innovation, the herring swims through the great Radio Ballad of 1960
SMITH, ADAM: WEALTH OF NATIONS
In which we explore the curious errors and omissions in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations herring thinking
SPAWNING
On the spawning preferences of the herring, together with a list of the spawning grounds for the main Eastern Atlantic populations
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
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
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
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
ZUYDERZEE
Home to a once distinct population of inshore herrings lost to the dyke building tendencies of The Netherlands