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Quincy smelt

By adamg on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 10:04am

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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By Ice-9 on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 10:56am.

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

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By Michael__ on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 11:12am.

I knew I smelt something fishy

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By NotWhitey on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 12:13pm.

Photo from yesterday:

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

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By ophis on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:41am.

Gulliver's Creek is in Milton, not Quincy

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