Clupea pallasii Cuvier & Valenciennes
Date 1907
Source/Photographer Evermann, Barton Warren; Goldsborough, Edmund Lee (1907) Fishes of Alaska, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. 26, 1906, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Author Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932); Edmund Lee Goldsborough (1868–1953)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_39339_Clupea_pallasti_Cuvier_%26_Valenciennes.jpeg

The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin. The distribution is widely along the California coast from Baja California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea; in Asia the distribution is south to Japan, Korea, and China. Clupea pallasii is considered a keystone species because of its very high productivity and interactions with many predators and prey.

Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae
Genus: Clupea
Species: Clupea pallasii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847