Talk:Atlantic herring

Animated Gifs

I love the animated gifs. It breathes life into the article. Well done Skeeter08865 14:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Edits

Just started a cursory edit of the article will go through it more thoroughly in time. Their is a wealth of info about Atlantic herring on internet i have put one of the better sites in the external links. I think that info combined with what you have put in already Uwe should make for a well informed and interesting article. Do you think we could get Lupo and Salleman involved with helping edit and adding references? it would be cool if we could. probably could use some help with taxonomy box for Taxonomy reference goto *[1]. Yakuzai 28 June 2005 20:43 (UTC)

good idea, maybe it is better when you ask them - tax: we do it this way http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=24&genusname=Clupea&speciesname=harengus%20harengus fishbase is made by a student of our Kiel group, now visited by 11 million a month, 1000 cooperators - amazing what the web can produce - there is also a lot of refs Uwe Kils June 28, 2005 20:51 (UTC)

Most Annoying Page EvER!! Can we please put the animated gifs on a diffrent page and link to them from here? This page takes forever to load and puts a huge strain on the server--Ewok Slayer --(User | Talk | Contribs) 02:33, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Most abundant?

The article says:

Atlantic herring is the most abundant species of fish on the planet

but doesn't give a reference. I've changed this to "one of the most abundant species of fish on the planet" as I can't find any evidence for the more definitive claim.

I did find some interesting surveys of abundance of fish larvae: Franco-Gordo et al. surveyed the Pacific coast of Mexico and found Bregmaceros bathymaster (Bregmacerotidae) to be by far the most abundant; Aceves-Medina et al. surveyed the Gulf of California and found Benthosema panamense, Triphoturus mexicanus (both Myctophidae) and Vinciguerria lucetia (Phosichthyidae) to be most abundant. Note that these are all very small mesopelagic fishes.

• C. Franco-Gordo, E. Godínez-Domínguez and E. Suárez-Morales (2002). "Larval fish assemblages in waters off the central Pacific coast of Mexico" (PDF). Journal of Plankton Research. 24 (8): 775–784.
• G. Aceves-Medina, S. P. A. Jiminez-Rosenberg, A. Hinojosa-Medina, R. Funes-Rodriguez, R. J. Saldierna, D. Lluch-Belda D, P. E. Smith, and W. Watson (2003). "Fish Larvae from the Gulf of California" (PDF). Scientia Marina. 67 (1): 1–11.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Gdr 14:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The omnivorous predator

The article doesn't list humans as predators because ... ?

The predator section should list Homo Sapiens as a predator? I would simply & provacatively add it myself but I don't have the research and I know it.

Wikipedia pages that may be related: Sardine, Fishing, Homo Sapiens, Fish (food), Overfishing

Wikivek 14:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of May 9, 2009, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR. Sasata (talk) 08:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

• The "Morphology" section, currently two short sentences long, tells almost nothing about what the fish looks like.
• The "Predators" is merely a listing of other species, and not even a proper sentence.
• The prose and flow in other sections needs to be improved; there are too many one-sentence "paragraphs".
• The extensive "Further reading" section needs to be converted into in-line citations so that the article is properly sourced.
• There is a wealth of scholarly literature available on this species that has not been mentioned, so the article does not represented a good general overview of what's known about the topic.
• Large areas of empty white space are unattractive and should be avoided.
• The taxobox picture Herringadultkils.jpg lacks source information.
• Some picture captions are very long; much of this caption text should be moved to article text and better described.

Common staple in (at least) European cuisine

Yet absolutely no mention of this fish nutritional value in human's diet. Major omission, not a good article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.231.199.99 (talk) 09:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

You are looking at the wrong article. Stop being so pompous and look at Herring as food. --Epipelagic (talk) 10:14, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Ooh, thank you :) I seriously wasn't trying/feeling like/ to be pompous ;) I guess I just lacked the imagination to search for

"Herring as food" article, instead of just checking on the most obvious one, when given a jar of atlantic herring and checking it out

on my favourite website ;) Still, could have been easier to find or linked to from this article, IMHO :)

It is pretty strange that the only link to Herring as food in the article is in the template at the bottom. -165.234.252.11 (talk) 16:42, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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