The Shetland Fishing News is a fishing paper from the Shetland Islands. It gives periodic updates of pelagic and other catches. You can access herring via species , country or geographical area. History of the Icelandic Herring fishery and its importance to the development of Iceland as a an independant country. The History of the Shetland Herring fishery from the 16th century to the 1900's.
Site also includes a brief history of the fishery in general beginning even earlier.