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August
between Biren and Airy islets.
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Fish were collected in the old channel that used to flow
A causeway now blocks the channel.
The Fish-Tox was put out in between the islets on a shallow reef
The tide was stock so the water mass did net
Only a limited kill of fish resulted.
move much.
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on the lagoon side.
The excessive
silt in the water made pickup very difficult for visibility was
Two large bone fish were collected.
very poor.
Bonham:
"Eman Island was the site of several tests.
‘Col-
lections of Coenobita were made from under Messerschmidia trees.
Grapsus,
and many hundreds of
rock oysters,
(not collected),
Tridacna crocea, Actinopygia mauritiana,
the surge channels.
No Holothuria.
mee
sea slugs, Dolobrifera
corals,
Eriphia,
at the edge of
Growth on this narrow reef
flat seemed fairly good in spite of evidence of siltation.
dence of Ocypode on land, but not seen.”
Swe
On the ocean reef flat were sponges,
Evi-
Photos taken from tower.
At the east end of the chain at Arji islet Grapsus and
Coenobita
(under Mess. trees)
An expedition of Palumbo,
abundant.
Lowman,
McClin and Lewis went to
the east end of Arji islet and took six Tridacna gigas 2-2.5 feet.
Three of the clams were used by Lowman for kidney material and
three were sampled by Bonham for radioassay.
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