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Table

3.

Radioisotopes in fish,

July-August,

1958.

t

in artebrates and

Values are expressed

counting error at time of collection.
Sample and
location

Collection
date

Fish

wotho
Kusaie.

6-30-58
7-3 ~58

Utirik
Ujelang

40
Species

Tissue

65

K

cs

.

7-11-58

Mixed
_ Whole
Yellowfin tuna Mixed

Grouper

9.5 42.3 16 1.0.86
4.2 2 0.44 0.68t 6.31

7-16-58
7-19-58

7-25-58

Mixed
Squirrelfish

Yellowfin tuna

Whole
Liver,muscle

5.0 t 0.68 4.5 + 0.55
6.8 + 0.77 2.2 + 0.82

6~30-58

Coconut crab
"
"

Abdomen
Carapace

6-30-58

Coconut

Milk

Kusaie . 23

7- 3-58

Coconut

Ujelang

7-19-58

Coconut

Tarawa

Ponape

Invertebrates

Wotho

Land Plants

wotho

o

x3

228
Tarawa 25 7-11-58
Utirik Mow 7-16-58
S @

3

Kapingamarangi 7-24-58
Ponape
7-25-58
lpry weight basis

Pandanus

Breadfruit

Bread fruit
"
"
"

Breadfruit
"
"

Liver,muscle
Muscle

Mixed

Fruit

9.1 2 1.5
5.5 t 0.82

---

3.5 t+ 0.77 16

+ 2.3

is * 2.2
10 41.3
3.9 * 0.30

68
13

+ 2.0
t1.0
--

uit 1.5

--

Milk

3.7 £ 0.39

--

Milk

2.8 £ 0.43

Fruit
"
"

2.6 £ 0.64
3.3 t 0.21
5.5 £ 0.27

"

Fruit
"
"

Meat

137

Zn

1.6 t 0.19
3.8 = 0.12
19 21.1
15 £0.35

3.0 t 0.34

--

--~~
--

--

-~
-—
--

---

---

-0.17 + 0.045
--

1.4

1.7

~~
t 0.073
--

7% 0.091

0.27 t 0.016

0.0774 0.019

0.095+ 0.007
1.0 + 0.069
1.3 2 0.037
0.26 + 0.10

0.35 + 0.025

0.50 + 0.045
0.12 ~ 0.013
0.39 + 0.015,
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