Anchovies vs. Herring

Any of various small silvery marine fishes of the family Engraulidae, especially Engraulis encrasicolus of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, often cured and preserved in oil.

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America.

plural of anchovy

Any of various silvery fishes of the family Clupeidae, especially the commercially important Clupea harengus of the northern Atlantic Ocean and C. pallasii of the northern Pacific Ocean.

A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.

Fish in the family Clupeidae.

Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (Clupea harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.

valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific