Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi)

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Science projects

Herring Geographical Bulletin (1888-2011)
An analysis of the distribution and abundance of herring spawners, commercial catches and tag returns with links to data summaries, detailed maps, time-series plots and related publications.

Herring Environmental Indicator
General information bulletin, 1994.

Marine Vegetation Mapping
1974-1983
(565 kb, PDF)

Herring Spawn Survey Manual 
Revised 2009
(1.7 mb, PDF)

CSAS Documents and Stock Status Reports

2011

Investigating changes in Pacific herring spawn density (layers).
CSAS 2011/064
D.E. Hay, C. Fort, J.F. Schweigert, L. Hamer and P.B. McCarter

2010

Stock Assessment Report on Pacific Herring in British Columbia in 2010.
SAR 2010/064

Stock Assessment and Manangement Advice for the British Columbia Herring Fishery, 2009 Assessment and 2010 Forecasts.
CSAS 2009/079
J.S. Cleary, J.F. Schweigert and V. Haist

2009

Stock Assessment for British Columbia Herring in 2008 and Forecasts of the Potential Catch in 2009.
CSAS 2009/019
J. Schweigert, L.B. Christensen and V. Haist

Herring multi-stock analysis: Integration of tagging data and evaluation of alternative dynamics.
CSAS 2009/072
V. Haist and J. Schweigert

2008

Stock Assessment Report on Central Coast Pacific Herring.
SAR 2008/010

Stock Assessment Report on Prince Rupert District Pacific Herring.
SAR 2008/011

Stock Assessment Report on Queen Charlotte Islands Pacific Herring.
SAR 2008/012

Stock Assessment Report on Strait of Georgia Pacific Herring
SAR 2008/014

Stock Assessment Report on west coast Vancouver Island Pacific Herring
SAR 2008/015

2007

Stock Assessment for British Columbia Herring in 2007 and Forecasts of the Potential Catch in 2008.
CSAS 2007/011
J. Schweigert and V. Haist

A risk assessment framework for Pacific herring stocks in British Columbia.
CSAS 2007/047
J. F. Schweigert, C. Fu, C.C. Wood and T.W. Therriault

Initial investigations on potential impacts of reductions in spawn survey and bio-sampling program effort on herring stock assessments and management advice.
CSAS 2007/081
V. Haist and J. Schweigert

Potential impacts of the British Columbia herring roe fishery on the spatial and temporal distribution of herring spawn: examination of the serial depletion hypothesis.
CSAS 2007/086
D.E. Hay, P.B. McCarter and K.S. Daniel

2006

Catch-age models for Pacific herring: Evaluation of alternative assumptions about fishery and stock dynamics and alternative error distributions.
CSAS 2006/064
V. Haist and J. Schweigert

Stock Assessment for British Columbia Herring in 2006 and Forecasts of the Potential Catch in 2007.
CSAS 2007/002
J. Schweigert and V. Haist

Area 9 herring: a review of available information for stock assessment purposes.
CSAS 2007/004
T. Therriault

2005

Stock assessment report on Central Coast Herring.
SAR 2005/065

Stock assessment report on Prince Rupert District Herring.
SAR 2005/066

Stock assessment report on Queen Charlotte Islands Pacific Herring.
SAR 2005/067

Stock assessment report on Strait of Georgia Pacific Herring.
SAR 2005/068

Stock assessment report on West Coast Vancouver Island Pacific Herring.
SAR 2005/069

An assessment framework for Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) stocks in British Columbia.
CSAS 2005/083
J.F. Schweigert

2004

Pacific Herring Spawn Disappearance and Recolonization Events.
CSAS 2004/008
D.M. Ware and C. Tovey

An evaluation of alternative age-structured models for risk assessment of Pacific Herring stocks in British Columbia. CSAS 2004/011
Fu, C., Schweigert, J. and Wood, C.C.

Stock Assessment for British Columbia Herring in 2004 and Forecasts of the Potential Catch in 2005.
CSAS 2004/081
J.F. Schweigert

2003

Are offshore summer herring distributions useful predictors of recruitment strength for northern herring stocks?
CSAS 2003/081
T.W. Therriault

Analysis of juvenile herring surveys for recruitment prediction in the Strait of Georgia.
CSAS 2003/107
D.E. Hay, J.F. Schweigert, M. Thompson, C.W. Haegele and P. Midgley

2002

An evaluation of a recruitment forecasting procedure for Strait of Georgia herring.
CSAS 2002/106
R. Tanasichuk

Metapopulation dynamics of British Columbia herring during cool and warm climate regimes.
CSAS 2002/107
D.M. Ware and J. Schweigert

Population structure of herring (Clupea pallasi) in British Columbia determined by microsatellites, with comparisons to southeast Alaska and California.
CSAS 2002/109
T.D. Beacham, J.F. Schweigert, C. MacConnachie, K.D. Le, K. Labaree and K.M. Miller

2001

Metapopulation structure and dynamics of British Columbia herring.
CSAS 2001/127
D. Ware and J. Schweigert

Population structure of herring (Clupea pallasi) in British Columbia:  an analysis using microsatellite loci.
CSAS 2001/128
T. Beacham, J. Schweigert, C. MacConnachie, K.D. Le, K. Labree and K.M. Miller

2000

Straying rates and stock structure of British Columbia herring.
CSAS 2000/006
D.M. Ware, C. Tovey, D. Hay and B. McCarter

Offshore herring biology and the 2001 recruitment forecast for the West Coast of Vancouver Island stock assessment region Columbia herring.
CSAS 2000/146
R.W. Tanasichuk

1999

An evaluation of inseason echo sounding estimates of herring biomass.
CSAS 1999/167
R.W. Tanasichuk

Natural mortality rates of adult Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) from southern British Columbia.
CSAS 1999/168
R.W. Tanasichuk

Age of sexual maturation and recruitment in Pacific herring.
CSAS 1999/175
D.E. Hay and P.B. McCarter

Pacific herring tagging from 1936 to 1992: a re-evaluation of homing based on additional data.
CSAS 1999/176
D.E. Hay, P.B. McCarter and K. Daniel

1998

Distribution and timing of herring spawning in British Columbia.
CSAS 1999/14
D.E. Hay and P.B. McCarter

An evaluation of the natural mortality rate used in the assessment of British Columbia herring stocks.
CSAS 1999/22
J.F. Schweigert and R. Tanasichuk

1997

Queen Charlotte Islands herring carrying capacity and sustainable harvest rates in different climate regimes.
CSAS 1997/139
D.M. Ware

The effects of sampling time on age-composition test fishing samples.
CSAS 1997/140
R. Tanasichuk

A retrospective analysis of escapement model performance using different adult survival rate estimate.
CSAS 1997/141
R. Tanasichuk and J. Schweigert

Offshore herring distribution and 1998 recruitment forecast for the West Coast of Vancouver Island stock assessment region.
CSAS 1997/142
D. Ware and R. Tanasichuk

ICES and PICES scientific reports

2010

A review of factors limiting recovery of Pacific herring stocks in Canada
ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 67: 1903-1913
J. Schweigert, J. Boldt, L. Flostrand, and J. Cleary

2009

Spatial diversity of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) spawning areas
ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 66: 1662-1666
D. Hay, B. McCarter, K. Daniel and J. Schweigert

Recruitment forecasting using indices of young-of-the-year Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) abundance in the Strait of Georgia (BC)
ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 66: 1681-1687
J. Schweigert, D. Hay, T. Therriault, M. Thompson and C. Haegele

Measuring and modelling Pacific herring spawning-site fidelity and dispersal using tag-recovery dispersal curves
ICES Journal of Marine Sciences 66: 1754-1761
L. Flostrand, J. Schweigert, K. Daniel and J. Cleary

2005

Recent Ecosystem Changes in the California Current System and Gulf of Alaska, Appendix 2 and 3. In Pices International Program on Fisheries and Ecosystem Responses to Recent Regime Shifts, Scientific Report No. 28
H. Batchelder, J. Boldt, W. Crawford, A. Hollowed, J. King, D. Mackas, N. Mantua, F. Mueter, G. McFarlane, I. Perry, J. Schweigert and F. Schwing

2004

Coupling NEMURO to herring bioenergetics. In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, Scientific Report No. 27
K.A. Rose, B.A. Megrey, D.E. Hay and F.E. Werner

2002

Herring size-at-age variation in the North Pacific. In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, Scientific Report No. 20
J. Schweigert, F. Funk, K. Oda and T. Moore

Implications of variation in euphausiid productivity for the growth, production and resilience of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) from the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, Scientific Report No. 20
R. Tanasichuk

Reflections of factors affecting size-at-age and strong year classes of herring in the North Pacific. In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, Scientific Report No. 20
D.E. Hay

2001

Spatial, temporal and life-stage variation in herring diets in British Columbia. In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, Scientific Report No. 15
D.E. Hay and B. McCarter

2000

Pacific herring: Common factors have opposite impacts in adjacent ecosystems. In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, Scientific Report No. 15
G.A. McFarlane, R.J. Beamish and J.F. Schweigert

1999

General Observations of Changes in Abundance of Small Pelagics and Specific Observations on Changes in Timing and Distribution of Herring Spawn in British Columbia: Impacts of Climate Change? In Pices-Globec International Program on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity, pp. 65-69 Scientific Report No. 11
D.E. Hay and B. McCarter

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

2002

Tagging along: association among Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) revealed by tagging.
CJFAS 59(12):1960-1968
D.E. Hay and S.M. McKinnell

2001

Tagging of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) from 1936-1992: a review with comments on homing, geographic fidelity and straying.
CJFAS 58(7):1356-1370
D.E. Hay, P.B. McCarter and K.S. Daniel