Lbe

a snort tims, and they are the ones that
living fish,

wa considor the fast-

The ones that reach the somes relative size ina

matter of a ysar longer are preity much oF a slow-living fish,
These fish crew more slowly and also did not live as lons,
ds good ciremistantial evidence to ma.

Nich

Eascd upon the arount of

vYadiation thoy roceived, there wos gsod circunstantial evidences
of deleterious effects fron the radiation,

I do not belicve that

the deleterious effects could have been traced to chemical waste
ecunted into the Lak »

Somebody will probably ask that quostion,

and they willl probably vant to know way I do not belicve it, Well,
it is an accwzulation of chservations made over the years while

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we were thers,

Usually, when anything like that was dunped in a

lake, it was not dumped in in any quantities,
dribble that would come in all of the tims.

It was not a
Somebody would hold

the pluz and we might have senething come down that creek that

was poisonovs.

Wo had several minor kills in the unser lInke due

to things like that which we traced cut as being dre to thet.
‘I edo not belicvoe that the disapntearance of some of the
fish 701 the population was a dizcct result of these kills.

I

do not believe it was turbidity because the Lake was turbid as
Wo were there, and it gradually clearcd us and procesded to
enulse the area,
* Based udon our ponulation studies, wa found the black
crappie

, the bluegill, tho large mouth bass, the carp, the shad

and th2 bullhkead were doing what wa misht call reasonably well.

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