1-?
401<
They
●
curlew,
on the
seeds,
137CS
and
other
137CS
Co and
known,
The
although
tuna,
as the
terns,
the
terns.
The
fairy
higher
area
but
still
in which
from
the
tuna
must
analyzed
are of the
tissues
found
no
Atoll
from
order
60
tuna
(NVO-269-7,
co
in the dark
fishery
from
ranged
in the
for yellowfin
that
a major
wide
fallout.
range
levels
terns
The
including
fishery
and
dry;
most
of 101 to 500 pCi/g
dry,
similar
tuna
amount
from Bikini
of the
55
(Table
18).
‘
Fe in the Bikini
its
Co for the
we
tuna,
1969,
In contrast,
3.3 to 1600 pCi/g
the
because
75 yellowfin
from
Co ,as
distance
60
fallout,
of the tuna
60
Thus,
of
1968
same
are somewhat
to the
source
during
lvnnual Report).
muscle
of
affecting
in relation
particles.
the
of magnitude.
and not worldwide
214 tuna,
t-he Japanese
on essentially
is feefiir.g is a factor
concentrations
fell
same
is not
of sand
same
of
bcth
turnstones
ingestion
Sp .
turnstones
and contain
in the noddy
of the radionuclide.
be Bikini
from
Co levels
amounts
The
reef,
a-bout the
center.t, as expected,
source
taken
60
large
Cs for the
are feeding
contain
an animal
radionuclide
137
me
*
and on Scaevola
in muscle.
be by direct
which
organisms
of
137c~
of
relatively
and on the
source
it could
amounts
on the reef
pCi./g dry
the beaches
.
The yellowfin
feeds
contains
as 2,300
along
feed
detectable
hand,
consequently
t as much
also
60
cont~]in barely
the
and
the
55Fe
Japanese
of the values
to the valu~s
It appears,
therefore,
tuna is from world–
.-