INTRODUCTION
During the planning stage of Operation Redwing, discussions
were held by staff members of the Atomic Energy Commission,
Division of Biology and Medicine, and the Applied Fisheries
Laboratory of the University of Washington on the probable need
for blological surveys to define and evaluate the distribution
of radioactive materials to be produced by the 1956 series of
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nuclear experiments.
Following these preliminary discussions,
a tentative out-
line of studies to be pursued during and immediately following+
the test series was prepared by the Applied Pisheries Labora-
tory and submitted to the Division (UWPL-45)*
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This proposed
program contained, among other suggestions, one that called for
a survey and evaluation of the radioactive content of the water,
plankton,
and fish from areas about the test site,
following
somewhat the plan of Operation Troll
The specific assignment of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory
to the survey project was made in a letter of March 28, 1956,
from Dr. Charles Dunham, Director of the Division of Blology
and Medicine.
This letter addressed to Lauren R. Donaldson
Stated in part:
wProgram of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory, University of
Washington, for the 1956 Test Series at Bikini and Eniwetok
Atolls, Marshall Islands. February 7, 1956.
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Harley, John H., Editor, Operation Troll, NYO-4656,
March 1956.