199000¢ Table 6. Reconstructed total body radioactivity associated with tissues and organs analyzed@ and measured . muscle-tissue concentration. Radionuclide 137¢¢5 905, él 60¢, 2079; 239+240p,, 24] am Common name of fish Surgeonfish Island locator B-10 Percent of total body activity in tissue or organ Gizzard Muscle Bone Skin Liver Viscera contents 75 Mullet Goatfish Snapper 8-] 8-27 B-23 Surgeonfish Mullet Goatfish Snapper B-10 B-5 B-17 B-1 Surgeonfish B-10 B-23 B-17 B-23 28 38 48 Surgeonfish B~10 <18 Snapper B-23 81 Mullet Goatfish Snapper Mullet Goatfish Surgeonfish B-23 B=-17 B-10 0.7 53 68 92 13 7 4 2 «0.4 <0.2 26 17 0.7 0.7 1 <0.2 10.01 _ 42 46 2 40 63 10 3 29 34 0.2 0.07 0.05 €0.3 34 82 22 <0.1 7] 8 <0.1 <0.02 23 518 109 19 6 19 17 12 14 22 5 25 413 <9 33 0.3 <0.9 <0.3 2 0.06 2 0.9 36 3 2 0.1 5 67 1 4 <0.1 0.2 5 Mullet Goatfish Snapper B-23 B-17 B-1 0.2 0.1 4 0.5 0.7 26 Surgeonfish B-10 0.1 2. Snapper B~] 2 Mullet Goatfish B-23 B-17 0.9 0.1 0.2 1 24 15 4 10 0.5 . 12 2 7 4 19 3 25 35 11 3 5 1 2 76 10 3 2 80 1 85 17 5 0.5 0.9 50 2 0.5 1 51 5.3 0.8 11 4 } 2 82 90 6 69 89 5 <0.1 7 0.1 0.3 5 21 0.2 0.3 pCi ‘ ka wet tissue x % tissue of whole h body d wt) XL % tissue of whole body wt . oC} “kg wet wt whole fish xs a? 810 462 331 2 <0.01 4 206 47 123 - 0.5 0.3 0.1 4 Muscle, skin, bone, liver, viscera, and gizzard contents account for 93 to 98% of total collections. Concentrations in gills, eyes, and reproductive organs were not determined. UL Reconstructed whole fish concentration pCi/kg wet wt 54 225 279 29 380 44 2 12 69 14 1 fish weight. Measured muscle tissue concentration pCi/kg wet 47 198 48 147 0.62 0.52 3.2 0.23 26 410 263 206 <0.6 4 226 330 0.1 1.1 0.07 0.1 .03 1.0 0.03 0.04 Data are from 1978