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The 2004 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology was shared by researchers

who found that herring communicate by farting. I know some

species of herring are used for sushi; I'm just not sure how

the farting figures in that.



http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2004



Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia, Lawrence

Dill of Simon Fraser University [Canada], Robert Batty of the

Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg of the

University of Aarhus [Denmark], and Hakan Westerberg of Sweden's

National Board of Fisheries, for showing that herrings apparently

communicate by farting.

REFERENCE: "Sounds Produced by Herring (Clupea harengus) Bubble

Release," Magnus Wahlberg and Håkan Westerberg, Aquatic Living

Resources, vol. 16, 2003, pp. 271-5.

REFERENCE: "Pacific and Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse

Sounds," Ben Wilson, Robert S. Batty and Lawrence M. Dill,

Biology Letters, vol. 271, 2003, pp. S95-S97.



(Research articles available via links at the Ig Nobel page.)

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Herring are not used for sushi.
Herring roe with Konbu is used.
But thanks for the information.

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Herring are not used for sushi.
Herring roe with Konbu is used.
But thanks for the information.

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Herring are not used for sushi.
Herring roe with Konbu is used.
But thanks for the information.