PREPARING HERRING TO BE SMOKED: LOG REPORT, NOVA SCOTIA 
No fish contributes so largely to the support of the human race as the common Herring. It is so im¬ 
portant and abundant in the fisheries that it is often called “King Herring.” It swims closelv packed, in 
enormous schools, often over areas of 6 to 20 square miles, and the annual catch in American and European 
waters is nearly two billion pounds. In Maine, quantities of young Herring are canned as sardines. One 
authority has estimated the annual destruction of Herring by man as upward of eleven billion fish, or seven 
fish to each person in the world. 
