When I was a small fry, vacationing at the Youth Hostel on Martha’s Vineyard, my family spent an afternoon paddling up Herring Run Creek. When we reached shallow water and got out to push, we noticed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by.

The Pacific herring—an oily, silvery, schooling fish—is rarely high on the list of marine animals people fret about. But for the second straight year, the Canadian government has ignited a skirmish in ...

Every winter, a small fleet of commercial fishing boats sets gillnets in the San Francisco Bay. Their target: Pacific herring, which enter the estuary in huge numbers to spawn and are easily caught by ...

The gulls were swarming by the shore and the excited barking of sea lions all but confirmed for fishermen getting out of their cars at the Ferry Point parking lot last Sunday that the email and text ...

While it was known for herring to be eaten fresh (Cape Cod regional novelist Joseph C. Lincoln recalled his grandmother's declaration, "I do relish a nice fresh herring with my breakfast"), the ...

My internist was just about to take the fourth squeeze to the little round ball that is part of the blood-pressure apparatus when he paused to ask, “What’s the story with matjes herring? Do they sell ...

Bryant Rackers is in the Missouri fish record book — again. Rackers, of Bonnots Mill, caught a 3-pound skipjack herring on the Osage River on Oct. 27, a fish that tied the current Missouri record for ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by. There, in the crashing shallows below the Main Street Dam, the gull ...