STARVED HERRINGS
A few years ago it was found that the herrings were fewer than usual in the North Sea because an unusual flood of Atlantic water had entered, bringing multitudes of salps, small jellyfish-like animals. Between the abundant presence of these and the scarcity of herrings experts traced some connection: the two kinds seem incapable of thriving in company. As the salps live on the surface of the sea and herring eggs sink to the bottom the salps cannot have devoured the ova. but it is believed that the jellyfish do devour the tiny organisms on which the herring feeds, and so starve out the fish.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 4
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107STARVED HERRINGS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 4
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