| Common name | Silver cured herring |
| Language | English |
| Type | Market |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 4 - (Less common name) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Ref. | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1990 |
| Life stage | product |
| Sex | females and males |
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| Remarks | Very heavily salted, mild smoked, old-fashioned bloater; also used to describe herring less heavily salted and smoked than red herring. In the Netherlands, silver herring is hard dried, salted herring, not smoked. |