weteee ee see ble a, Among the islands listed, Alice is the most westerly of the northern islands and Leroy is the most westerly of the southern islands. Thus Alice, along with Belle and Clara, are gencrally downwind from the northerly island Janet, the location of many tests. The early-time fallout on these westerly islands from tests at Janet can be seen in the table above. On the other hand, Yvonne is on the eastern side of the Atoll, about midvay in the north-south direction. The other side of the Atoll, in the prévailing downwind direction, is largely a reef, with Alice to the north and Leroy to the south. The table shows that the early fallout of significance was on one.or the other of these islands. . Much of the information on radiological conditions in the oceanic areas around the Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls and in the lagoons has been abtained from repeated surveys by the Applied Fisheries Laboratory of the University of Washington (Hines, 1962). ' In June 1946 before the first tests at Bikini Atoll, almost two Pe me One aUO ORS ese yn Oem ae Sea-Based Surveys thousand fish were taken at Bikini as controls to ascertain the normal Bikini fish population. Between Able and Baker tests and after these In September 1946 migratory fish caught at nearly atolls were found not to have detectable radioactivity (lines, 1962, p. 49). Resurveys were conductedin 1947 and 1948 with scientific representat ,. tlLon broadened to other military, governmental, and institutional 17 wer ims radioactivities (Hines, 1962, p. 44). me ewes me erp es tests similar numbers of fish in this vicinity were collected to study