Pacific Herring: A Love Story Every year Pacific Herring arrive in Yaquina Bay with one goal in mind - to make the next generation of Pacific Herring. Like all great love stories, theirs is fraught with complications, great forces trying to keep them from their heart’s true desire (also known as biological imperative). You can always tell when the herring are in, because they bring all the predators to the bay. Gulls and surf scoters, bald eagles and herons, sea lions and harbor seals all become