An all-in-one deep dive into the fascinating story of the Atlantic herring and its far-reaching dominions.
Almost everything you didn-t know you needed to know about Atlantic herrings can be found in this book. (Pacific and Baltic herrings are in there too.) Yes, they changed the world-everything changes everything-but herrings make the world bigger. With spawnings seen from space, a trillion individuals make this one of the tastiest and most abundant vertebrates on Earth.
Between -A Beginning- and -Zuiderzee-, count the wars fought over herrings; don-t forget Scotland vs the Holy Roman Empire. The herring-s high-pitched farts were logged as Soviet submarines and received an Ig Nobel Prize. One herring joke featured in four Shakespeare plays; a Jonson; the glorious, suppressed fantasia Nashes Lenten Stuffe; and one suppressed and lost play. And what of Van Gogh-s ear? Herrings also laugh at taxonomists; physically change with sea temperature and
