APPENDIX I
Summary of Activity Measurements on Biological Specimens Run
at the Applied Fisheries Laboratory.

Average Values of the Radioactivity of Tissues of Reef Fishes
from the "TANEY" Collections and Other Areas. Values
in Disintegrations per Minute per Gram of Wet Tissue.

Skin

Muscle

Bone

Liver

Viscera

No. of
Specimens

Truk
Guam
Parece Vela
Okinawa

27
28
8
9

Il
16
12
12

29
33
32
12

87
126
49
10

39
480
48
19

12
10
9
10

Puget Sound

7

7

11

4

9

10

337

91

528

5608

5348

61

Marshall Is.*

*From Rongelap, Rongerik, Eniwetok during late January, February, and March, 1955 and of species comparable to those in the "TROLL" collections.

Radioactivity by Tissues of Flying Fish Samples from the "TROLL"
and the Rongerik Area. Values in Disintegrations
per Minute per Gram of Wet Sample.

Station

Scales
Skin

Muscle

Bone

Liver

3A
3A
7-2
10A
11A
11A-6
11A-6
12A-2
13
13
14
14
19A-5
21A
23-2
30

36
22
84
36
102
48
54
42
38
72.
173
172
256
250
49
66

19
10
24
16
20
19
19
7
17
10
16
El
20
45
17
13

4
17
21
10
84
10
0
28
44
33
28
29
34
63
49
8

40
167
144
24
297
150
155
18
173
119
231
62
22
359
77
101

14
50
72
49
86
48
44
333
66
70
386
56
75

36
37-5

134
33

31
18

82
51

329
43

462
45

Average

89

18

32

136

123

Rongerik

109
336

38
32

68
78

208
241

115
320

Average

222

35

73

224

218

13

6

82

34

Spleen

Kidney

18
27
43

194
396

163
60
113

112

rae

>

18

_

118

Gonad

Wr,

34/35

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