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
World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Europe and North America of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The list does not include the "Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean", a biosphere reserve shared between Morocco and Spain, which has been classified as part of the Arab States region. "See also: " See also Portugal and Spain. See also Romania and Ukraine. World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Europe and North America Under UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme, there are 302 biosphere reserves recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in Europe and North America (as of April 2016). These are distributed across 36 countries in the