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SpeciesClupeiformesClupeidae
Fish

🐟Atlantic herring

Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758

Der Atlantische Hering (Clupea harengus) ist einer der häufigsten Fische der Welt, einer der bedeutendsten Speisefische und gehört zur Gattung der Echten Heringe. Er wird seit Menschengedenken besonders an seinen Laichplätzen gefangen. Viele Städte wurden in der Nähe der Laichplätze und Durchzugsgebiete gegründet. Für die Hanse war der Atlantische Hering eines der wichtigsten Handelsgüter. Noch bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein war der Atlantische Hering so häufig, dass er als „Arme-Leute-Essen“ galt. Heute sind die Bestände durch starke Befischung und ökologische Probleme in der Ostsee deutlich zurückgegangen, laut dem Internationalen Rat für Meeresforschung (ICES) von rund 300.000 Tonnen im Jahr 1991 auf rund 105.000 Tonnen im Jahr 2020. Als Ursache dafür wird vor allem der mit dem Klimawandel verbundene Anstieg der Meerestemperatur vermutet. Der Atlantische Hering wurde in Deutschland 2021 und 2022 zum Fisch des Jahres ernannt.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
Clupea harengus, Split, Herron, herring, Protestant, Herring, Red Herring, Sild, Melker, Mattie, Kipper, Bloater, Herning, Pickling, Pearl Essence, Bank Herring, Bismark Herring, Cleanplate Herring, Cut spiced Herring, Fall Herring, Golden Cure, Hern, Kipper Herring, Klondyked Herring, Labrador Herring, Matje Cured Herring, Mediterranean Cure, Mesh Herring, Milker Herring, Murman Herring, Mustard Herring, Newcastle Kipper, Norwegian Cured Herring, Norwegian Herring, Norwegian Milker, Norwegian Silver Herring, Norwegian Sloe, Oriental Cure, Pickled Herring, Sea Atlantic Herring, Sea Herring, Sea Stick, Shore Herring, Silver Cured Herring, Soused Herring, Split Cure Herring, Spring Herring, Sugar Cured Fish, Summer Herring, Whitebait, Yawling
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2010.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.05 kg
Body length
0.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Atlantic herring

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.05 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
0.3 mrecord 0.45 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
22 yearsrecord 25 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
3.38
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.38 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
1.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Atlantic herring yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderClupeiformes
  4. ›familyClupeidae
  5. ›genusClupea
  6. ›speciesClupea harengus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderClupeiformes
  3. suborderClupeoidei
  4. genusClupea
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderClupeiformes
  10. suborderClupeoidei
  11. genusClupea
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In other languages
Atlantischer Hering (de), sild (nb), śledź oceaniczny (pl), Hareng (fr), Clupea harengus (es), silli (fi) … and 25 more languages
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