on July 18,

1957, a collection was made in the channel off the northwest

end of Kabelle Island, Rongelap Atoll.

All fish were obtained in water

15 feet or less in depth, and the collections were madein localities al-

most identical to those of the 1954, 1955 and 1956 surveys.

Locality,

date of collection, common names, genera, species and number of

specimens for the 1956 and 1957 collections are listed in the

appendix.

The fish were placed on ice in insulated containers within two hours

of capture and transported to the Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory
where they were frozen.

There the fish were identified and dissected,

except in the case of fish collected in 1956 when the frozen fish were
shipped to the base Laboratory at the University of Washington for dissection and subsequent radiological analysis.

Tissues used for analysis

were muscle, bone, liver and stomach contents or viscera.

Specimens

which were too small to dissect were processed as whole fish.
Partly because of the omnivorous food habits of the Marshallese
natives and partly because of variations in the samples, it is advisable
to analyze many specimensof a variety of species to obtain reliable estimates of levels of radioactivity (Welander,

1957).

Consequently, two-

gram samples of muscle tissue were taken from each fish and the
aggregate was homogenized in a Waring Blendor.

Plates were made of

aliquots of this homogenate and the remainder dried for radiochemical

analysis.

All samples were dried at 100° C and the plated samples ashed

at temperatures up to 540° C, cooled, slurried, dried

and

counted

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