Season: Spring spawning herring - January-March and September-November; North Sea herring - May-June and August-September
Catch range: Spring-spawning herring - North-East Atlantic; North Sea herring - North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat straits
Nutritional information: Herring is rich in Vitamin D, Protein, Omega-3, Selenium
Every year, over two million tonnes of Atlantic herring are caught and eaten worldwide, making it the third most fished species in the world by volume. As fishing goes, herring fishing is pretty straightforward, if not necessarily easy: fishermen take their boats out into the open seas, locate a school of herring, throw out a large net and haul up the catch.
There are many good reasons for increasing the amount of herring in your diet: your health, your taste buds and the planet will thank you for it.
