any fish used for food by human beings

any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings

valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic

important food fish of the northern Pacific

type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings

valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled