Pacific herring
Common fish in Japanese cuisine; often eaten as 数の子 (kazunoko, herring roe) or dried as 身欠きニシン (migaki nishin).
Herring fishing is thriving in Hokkaido.
ニシンの塩焼きはご飯によく合う。
Grilled salted herring goes well with rice.
dried herring fertilizer; herring meal fertilizer
cloudy weather during the herring season near Hokkaido
soba with dried herring
Katakana spelling is standard for this fish name; usually written in kana.
Hiragana spelling is also common.
Rare kanji form; the reading かど is also recorded for this kanji but is not the usual reading.
Rare kanji form.
The Japanese word ニシン is of uncertain origin. It may be related to the Ainu word for herring, but the exact derivation is unclear.