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NAME & AODRESS OF CONTRACTOR OR INSTITUTION: (State the division, department, or professional schoo!, medical, graduate
or other, with which this project should be identified.)
_ University of Hawaii
' Research Corporation
1110 University Avenue,
____|Honolulu,Hawaii
TITLE OF PROJECT:
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Fish Toxicity at Enewetak and Bikini Atolls, Marshall Islands
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NAMES, DEPARTMENT, AND OFFICIAL TITLES OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC
PERSONNEL: (not including graduate students) engaged on the project, and fraction of man-year devoted to the project by each person.
A. H. Banner
Professor of Zoology
University of Hawaii
Co-Princi
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J. E. Randall
Ichthyologist
B. P. Bishop Museum
Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator
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NO. OF GRADUATE STUDENTS ON PROJECT:
P, J. Scheuer
Professor of Chemistry
University of Hawaii
Acting P.I., 5/15 to
12/31,
1975
1/40
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SUMMARY OF PROPOSED WORK: {200-300 words, omit Confidential Data). Summaries are exchanged with government and privé :@
agencies supporting research, are supplied to investigaters upon request, anc may be published in
ocuments.
Ma e summaries substantive, giving initially and for each annual revision the following: OBJECTIVE; SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND FOR STUDY; PRO-
POSED PROCEDURE; TEST OBJECTS AND AGENTS.
Ciguatera ‘is a human intoxication caused by the ingestion of certain —
tropical reef fishes,
A plausible theory of the unpredictable outbreaks
of ciguatera links the sudden toxicity of normally edible fish to man-made
activities at coral reefs.
The proposed ciean-up activities at Fnewetak
-and Bikini atolls might therefore be accompanied by ap.zarance of ciguateric
fishes. Both carnivorous and herbivorous fishes will be caught and
tested for ciguatera by an established bioassay (feeding of mongooses).
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One hundred and fifty-four specimens belonging to 24 species have been
collected and tesced. Of these,11 of 12 specimens of Epinephelus fuscoguttatus
(Serranidae) and 2 of 4 specimens of Plectropomus leopardus (Serranidae),
totalling 8.5% of fish tested, were ciguatoric.
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