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Table 3.

Gross levels of gamma radioactivity in reef fishes

collected at Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls, July
1957, expressed as c/m/g wet tissue *

Collection

date and
Locality

7/11/57

Ailinginae
Atoll

Common
name

Number
of
speci-

Muscle

Bone

Liver

Stomach
content

mens

105

Reef fish

3e

33

Reef fish

26

20

34

111

Reef fish

24

19

22

64

Reef fish

11

36

54

75

48

Goatfish

14

28

413

683

Halfbeak

50

14

64

Enibuk I.

7/17/57

Rongelap Atoll
Rongelap I.

(carnivores)
(omnivores)

7/13/57

Rongelap Atoll

Kabelle I.

*Tissues were counted for radioactivity during
September 1957.

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