Scientific name: Clupea harengus(Atlantic Herring)
Habitat: Benthopelagic Main role: Prey Trophic level: 3,4
IUCN Red List Assessment: Least Concern
Diet: They prey on zooplankton and fish larvae.
Threats: Highly commercial. Herring stocks collapsed in the 1970s due to overfishing. Subsequent poor recruitment led to a complete fisheries closure in 1977, after which the stock eventually recovered and fisheries reopened. Herring is closely monitored and managed throughout the North Sea to ensure stock survival. Herring is also sensitive to pollution.
Herring is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE). For more information on how Ecopath-with-Ecosim (EwE) works, please visit our Wiki page or visit the official EwE website at https://ecopath.org.
For detailed information on how the simulation works for the North Sea Edition, we recommend further exploring our research publication called "Combining ecosystem modeling with serious gaming in support of transboundary maritime spatial planning".
Baltic Herring (Clupea harengus membras)
For detailed information on how the simulation works for the Baltic Sea Edition, we recommend further exploring our research publication called "Foodweb modeling in the Maritime Spatial Planning Challenge Simulation Platform: Results from the Baltic Sea Region"
For detailed information on how the simulation works for the Clyde Marine Region Edition, we recommend further exploring our research publication called "Combining ecosystem modeling with serious gaming in support of transboundary maritime spatial planning".
Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.
Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Eastern Mediterranean Sea Edition.
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