Herring, common names: green striped bass, green nine red line, sea mackerel, 鰊. Herring is a cold-temperate schooling marine pelagic fish. It feeds on plankton. Because of the large schools of fish, production, meat and fat, become the origin of the important economic fishery resources;

Herring can be used as medicine, the medicinal effects are as follows:

Meat contains protein, amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids. Mature sperm nests are used to produce ichthyoglobin (7 percent yield), deoxyribonucleic acid, and arginine. Ichthyosperm can quickly combine with the sulfonamide of heparin, so that heparin loses its anticoagulant effect; medicine uses its ability to combine with other proteins, often with insulin made of long-lasting insulin, used in diabetes treatment; Ichthyosperm injection is used to treat the hemorrhagic phenomenon of outbreaks of infectious hepatitis.