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‘damsel

jack

lizard fish

parrot

tuna

blennies

surgeon

mackerel

goatfish

grouper

wrasse

siganids

‘squirrel
mullet

snapper
herring

halfbeaks
butterfly fish

silversides

filefish

eel

flatfish

’ shark
barracuda

resented at each sampling station.

The fishes comprise those commonly

able in the Marshall Islands and are, for the most part, used by the natives
ood according to the information obtained at Likiep.
MBER OF SAMPLES AND KIND OF SAMPLE
A total of 727 samples were prepared from tissues taken from 369 fish,
ection of tissue samples were also standardized with five tissues (liver,
scera, bone, muscle, and skin) usually taken.

The spleen and gonads were

mpled when these organs were foundto beof sufficient size to make an ashed
mple, i.e., about one gram or larger.

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The total activity per gram of an individual fish was calculated as the sum

‘the activity of all its tissues.

Ls sues = d/m/g of fish.

This value was obtained in the following manner:

The body ratios, (see Table 1A) were obtained by weigh-

hg the tissues of fish from eight selected types. Fish other than those listed were
laced under one of the types as follows: halfbeak, blenny, column 1; goatfish,

UNIVERSITY Ancir :
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UNIV. OF Wasi. 102i

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