(1) Conteninated Tuna. (2) Apprehansion of long-range contaminatior of Japan and its fishing grounds. “> (3) Radiological factors affecting the fishermen: (a) Estimating the whole body duse. (b) Estimated dese from internal emitters, Contaminated Tuna Some of the Japanese Government officials are already referring to the latter half of March as the "great tuna panic". The origin of this panic beth in the United States and Japan is worthy of careful study. the extent of the tuna consumption in the United States and Japan declined during the second half of March is now known to me at this time. For a day prior to my departure from New York on March 19, and for 2 weeks following my arrival in Tokyo on March 22 the subject of radioactive tunr was a subject of popular conversation, When one considers the reaction of the informed American pubJic to the possibilites of contamination of tuna it is not. surprising that the Japanese were stampeded into apprehension over the immediatc prospects of their eating radioactive tuna and the long-range p¥ospects of their fishing grounds being ruined. (A) ' - Tuna Fishing Industry of Japan L/ The Japanese fishing fleet at the present *imre consiz.. of -6u 1,000 vessels operating out of ten major ports. The annual value of the tuna catch approxinates $26 million. The principal export species is albacor, Sixty percent of the landed albacor catch went to Japanese canners and forty percent was shipped abroad in freezers. Sixty percent of the albacor are caught in the summer season which extends from K-y through July. During this season, the fishing grounds are located relatively cluse to the Asiatic coast, During the winter months, January through Iarch, the Japanese vessels range far out to sea. The winter season accounts for forty percent of the annual catch, © ig a) w (8B) é Qtuna. : Contaminated Tuna in Japan | The Fukuryu Maru landed at Yaizu with a catch of 26,000 pounds of 8 taminated and that the decision of the Japanese to dispor>: of those T. 2 We must accept the fact that these tuna were excessively con- An excellent report “of technical information apour os. ©, ese tuna fisheries in Japan is report No. 10 issued by the Natural ve~ sourG3s Section of SCAP in March, 1948. 2 ge = ~ w = ’ o §