Quincy smelt

By adamg - 3/30/12 - 10:04 am

The Neponset River Watershed Association tweets that smelt were spotted yesterday in Quincy's Gulliver Creek, heading up the Neponset on their annual spawning run. Like the alewife, the smelt are anadromous, which means they live in the ocean but return to fresh water to spawn.

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Closer than you know, love

By Ice-9 - 3/30/12 - 10:56 am
#1

Closer than you know, love each other so....anadromous.

I knew I smelt something

By Michael__ (not verified) - 3/30/12 - 11:12 am
#2

I knew I smelt something fishy

Photo from

By NotWhitey - 3/30/12 - 12:13 pm
#3

Photo from yesterday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neprwa/7029502991/

geography

By ophis (not verified) - 3/31/12 - 11:41 am
#4

Gulliver's Creek is in Milton, not Quincy

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