& rather raive staterent ir this section on "Cpecies Idertificaticn"
occurs on page 2h.
"This particular species of sea bass may store
Strontium-90 under normal circumstances ard a high count may have no re-
lation to :mclear teata."
In concluding the remarks or species identification it if to be
peinted cut that there is ro arrumert that the sample needs to be correctly
identified but 1t would appear that to spend the effort on systematics
that is here indicated would mean that other more important areas would
be neglected.
The reccgnition of the problem as being in the fielda of biology,
radiology and oceanogrephy is quite proper.
The locatior of the sampling
statione have been wisely selected but from the program outlined it
would appear that there would be a wery large collection of camples with
the aralyses of only a emall proportion.
As the result of past surveys
we have row reached the stage where we wish to place wore emphasis on
the analyses of samples to deterwine the isotopes presert with less
esphasie on the analyvees of a great rumber of samples for gross activity
only.
“The analyses of samples world be a bottleneck to the Honitor Program.
Cr pases 39 the following statement is made. "The flesion product analyses
shevld include radio assays for gross beta and ranma activity and redio-
chemical determination of at least most of the following individual isotopes."
Twenty-one isotopes are then listed.
Assiming that analysis is made for
only five of the twenty-one isotopes ard ir only five of the tissves of a
fish, then on a schedule cf SCO samples ver month only zO fish could be
analyzed.
Thig woild mean that 1 fish from each of the 20 land stations