Picture This: Little Fish Community News Oct 11, 2024 Art Smith Staff Reporter asmith@newsandsentinel.com ...

In 1973, these little fish rocketed to space aboard one of the famed Apollo crew capsules as part of Skylab 3, a three-month mission to NASA’s early space station.

Each spring, alewife herrings return to spawn in New England rivers. In recent years, the removal of dams has led to a resurgence of the little fish that are a key part of the food chain.