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Fecundity for Clupea harengus
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Country Locality Absolute Fecundity Relative Fecundity Fecundity/length relationship
min max Min Mean Max a b
Celtic Sea 0 0
Doggerbank area, 1954-57 0 0 0.0006 5.5211
Downs, 1954-66 0 24,900
East-Anglian area, 1954-56 0 0 0.01247 4.5314
Gulf of Riga, 1970 0 0 0.78 3.66
Gulf of Riga, 2005-2006 (Estonia and Latvia) 0 0 3.41 2.9
Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1970-72 0 59,700
Kalajoki (1974) 20,497 0
Korsnas (1974) 18,089 0
North Sea Southern Bight & Eastern English Channel 0 0 0.02185 4.329
North Sea, 1964-65 0 41,700
Northern Baltic Sea (1974) 15,174 0
SandettiƩ and eastern English Channel, 1955-57 0 0 0.00431 4.8276
Southern Bight 0 0 0.00985 4.5922
SW Nova Scotia, 1970-72 0 92,100
Taivassalo (1974) 14,697 0
Western and southwestern Baltic 13,000 65,403
Estonia Gulf of Riga (autumn spawner), 1956 - 58 9,500 22,400
Estonia Gulf of Riga (spring spawner), 1957 6,900 55,000 333 503
Estonia Gulf of Riga, 1960 9,200 34,400
Estonia West of Irbe Sound, western part of the Gulf of Riga, 2008-2010 11,838 108,093
Finland Archipelago Sea (1988)_A 10,000 13,000
Finland Archipelago Sea (1988)_B 8,000 19,000
Finland Archipelago Sea, 1988 10,000 13,000
Finland Archipelago Sea, 1991 8,000 19,000
Iceland not specified, 1971 30,200 73,600
Iceland South coast (spring-spawner), November-December, 1965 0 0 0.03032 4.1285
Iceland south coasts, 1999-2000 0 0
Iceland Southwest coast (summer-spawner), July 1967 0 0 0.000006324 6.855
Iceland spawning grounds (summer-spawning), 1999-2000 0 0 0.133 3.96
Ireland North Irish Sea, 1976 0 31,500
Norway North Sea 20,000 50,000 0.03269 4.0877
Norway Northern North Sea (Feb 1958), spring spawners 0 0 0.03269 4.0877
Poland Gulf of Gdansk (autumn herring) 28,900 131,100
Poland Gulf of Gdansk (spring herring) 12,400 54,700
Poland Gulf of Gdansk - Autumn spawning stock 28,900 131,100
Poland Gulf of Gdansk - Spring spawning stock 12,400 54,700
UK East Anglia, 1933 12,570 34,450 0.2954 3.465
UK Northern North Sea-Scottish, 1957, summer-autumn spawners 0 0 0.198 3.8417
UK Southern Bight, 1957, summer-autumn spawners 0 0 0.02185 4.329
UK Scotland Clyde (Feb 1957-Mar 1958), spring spawners 0 0 0.0823 3.9131
UK Scotland Clyde Fisheries 0 0 0.0823 3.9131
UK Scotland NW North Sea 0 0 0.198 3.8417
UK Scotland West coast, 1983-84 0 39,500
USA Gulf of Maine, central Maine (Aug 1969) 0 0 0.0189278 4.53
USA Gulf of Maine, central Maine (Aug 1982) 0 0 0.00329078 5.081
USA Gulf of Maine, eastern Maine (Aug 1969) 52,000 194,000 0.107424 4
USA Gulf of Maine, eastern Maine (Aug-Sept 1982) 17,300 301,000 0.000142167 5.983
USA Gulf of Maine, western Maine (July 1969) 0 0 1.16546 3.313
USA Gulf of Maine, western Maine (Sept 1982) 0 0 0.000121388 6.032
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