-hsurveys, which diifers from the prese t prorram ir that fishing for
high seas tuna has becn added ard sore emphasise has leer given te deep
water sampling in the test site area, ‘& ‘eliewed te
e reasoratle and
adequate tc orovide the irformat’on reeded ty the AEC to filfill their
response bilities.
Tne prerram ovtlired abcve for futcre surveys has
beer submitted by the Divieion cf Biology aid '«dicine to the Division
of Hilitary Acplication for considerstion.
Is the Monitor Research Project Adequate?
ire suggestions bret some are detatable.
Or. farry has made many
A few cf the etatements to
which excenticn is taker. will te riven.
Cucting from cage 2,
Wan emmnenen, even after 10 vears of irtersive research, ro one
knows clearly jueat what the pattern aid rate cf dignpersal of these fissicr
prodvcts actually are {1 the troad region cf the western tropical iacific.
ko one knows exactly how far the varicug radioactive wateriais sre
carried {rn the ccear and, outwside the Marshall Islands, very little atout
how fasts :o one knows what :ajor rationuclides are preset ir the tirsucs
of even 1% of the marire crgariems concerned, ncr how or tc what extent
they are affected; ard rost serious cf all, no one knowa---sirce the
previous questions remain eseenfally unarswered---all the ways in which
these effects car be nassed or tc rar."
Certainiy, the pregrar of the radiotiolorical surveys in the Pacific
could rot be regarded ae intersive.
The remai-der cf the statment car
rot be called wrorr becamse it ‘s covched in such terms as “knows exactly"
or “knows clesr’y” tit the tmolication 1s that the program “as been directed