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the ocean water,
to compile a list of
organisms and to de-
termine the present level of radioactivity.
The oceanography
program became the responsibility of the University of Washington's Department of Oceanography;
mens
was largely the
the collection of speci-
responsibility of the
North Pacific
Exploratory Fishing and Gear Research Branch of the Fish and
Wildlife Service;
and the identification of samples and
evaluation of radioactivity
was the responsibility of
Laboratory of Radiation Biology.
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Fisheries
and the Fisheries
the
Specialists from the U.
Juneau,
and from the
Research
Institute,
S.
College of
University
of Washington, were hired for the identification of the fishes
and the invertebrates and to conduct salmon surveys.
During August 1959 collections and surveys were made in the
field.
The work last
summer was the most intensive study
that has been undertaken in this
portant because of
its
region and is especially im-
contribution to the present scant
amount of information about
the area.
The fish population
was small but the invertebrate collection was large both in respect to number of individuals and to number of species.
indentification of the fishes is essentially complete.
on the invertebrates is continuing.
Radioactivity
The
The work
in marine