Herring as food Herring as food Herrings are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. They often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast. The most abundant and commercially important species belong to the genus "Clupea", found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America. Three species of "Clupea" are recognized. The main taxon, the Atlantic herring, accounts for over half the world's commercial capture of herrings. Herrings played a pivotal role in the history of marine fisheries
Book of the Consulate of the Sea of the Ribera (seaside), which in 1282 were named "consols de mar" ("consuls of sea"). Many authors believe that the laws specified in the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea" had a big influence on all other compilations of maritime law in Europe, which are partly based on it. Some of these laws specified in the "Book of the Consulate of the Sea" were already adopted in the ninth century in places like the Baltic, the North Sea, the Schleswig sea: Riga, Wisby, Hamburg, Lübeck and other cities of the Hanseatic League, being published since 1407 under the title