Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring

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 ‘Zui...