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Atlantic Herring
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The Atlantic herring is a small, schooling fish of the family Clupeidae, found in vast numbers across the temperate and subarctic North Atlantic. It swims in dense shoals that can number in the millions, a behavior that has supported some of history's largest commercial fisheries and shaped coastal economies on both sides of the Atlantic for centuries. It feeds mainly on plankton and forms a key link in the ocean food web, providing prey for larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.
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