Gulls and terns studied in known polluted shoreline areas had a host of worse health and reproductive outcomes than those in ...

In the Northern Atlantic Ocean, herring are a keystone species, which means many other organisms within the ecosystem rely on these fish and their eggs for survival. Herring shape both ends of the ...

The cultural importance of herring to Lingít people cannot be overstated: Alaska Native people have been harvesting herring eggs as a traditional food for thousands of years. But in the last century, ...

Already, there’s been a “marked decline” in seabirds like the once-common scoters — birds that feed on herring eggs before nesting — in the past two years as fewer herring spawn in the area, WDFW’s ...

The contaminated shoreline areas were compared to relatively ... Nonviable embryos were two to nearly three times as prevalent in herring gull eggs from contaminated areas compared with the ...