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1. Valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
    
2. Commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
   - Clupea harangus

Derived forms: herring, herrings

Type of: clupeid, clupeid fish, food fish, saltwater fish

Part of: Clupea, genus Clupea

Encyclopedia: Herring, Richard