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Atlantic herring

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Noun1.Atlantic herringAtlantic herring - important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic
Clupea, genus Clupea - type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings
Clupea harangus, herring - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific


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