was about twice that of skin and bone at pre-shot stations,

increasing to about 9 times in the post shot fish.

The increase

in activity in post shot carnivores over pre-shot was less than
that of omnivores.

Of the pre-shot fish samples, omnivores

from Engebi had the highest count in liver tissue.

After the

shot, Bogallua omnivores had the most radioactive liver tissue.
The gut averaged about twice as high as the liver at all
pre-shot stations, increasing to 4 times in post shot fish; the
greatest increase was found in omnivores at Fngebi.

Post shot

carnivores at Bogallua had 3 times as much activity in the gut

as carnivores at Engebi.

Comparatively high counts were found

in the gut of pre-shot fish at Runit and Engebi and to some extent at Bogombogo and Aomon.

Fish with the lowest activity in

the gut were collected at Japtan.
Distribution of radioactive materials throughout the tissues from gut to muscle was fairly uniform in pre-shot and post
shot fish from Japtan and Igurin.

For example, by comparing

the radioactivity in the gut with that of muscle of all fish,

the pre-shot activity in the gut was about 2.5 times and 1.8 |
times that of muscle at Jeaptan and Igurin respectively (Fig. 6). °
At other islands the ratios between gut and muscle were markedly
greater:

about 10.3 times at Rigili, 35 times at Bogombogo, 100

times at Engebi, 68 times at Aomon and 352 times at Runit. Post
Japvtan about 1.5 times,

shot ratios were as follows:

Igurin oO,

Rigili over 3,000, Bogallua 107, Engebi 310, Aaraanbiru 1,000
and Runit 940.

Ratios between tissues thus seem proportionately
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