Photo Credit: Photo: Mike Morrell

What We Love: The Spring Herring Spawn

Pacific Herring sperm sure are pretty, aren't they?

March 17, 2022
VanIsle.News Staff

This exciting annual event attracts a frenzy of fish-eating birds and marine mammals.

All around Vancouver Island, Pacific Herring are beginning their spawning season.

Photo: Brian Timmer | Pacific herring spawning in Barkley Sound, near Ucluelet, BC, as of March 9.

Worth noting that although these spawns are beautiful, they are still devastatingly small compared to historical levels. Forage fish and their habitat are absolutely vital to our ecosystems and need to be protected/restored! pic.twitter.com/OlfaAdvFhF
— Brian Timmer (@Scuba_Timmer) March 10, 2022

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