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Table 3.
Gross levels of gamma radioactivity in reef fishes
collected at Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls, July
1957, expressed as c/m/g wet tissue *
Collection
date and
Locality
7/11/57
Ailinginae
Atoll
Common
name
Number
of
speci-
Muscle
Bone
Liver
Stomach
content
mens
105
Reef fish
3e
33
Reef fish
26
20
34
111
Reef fish
24
19
22
64
Reef fish
11
36
54
75
48
Goatfish
14
28
413
683
Halfbeak
50
14
64
Enibuk I.
7/17/57
Rongelap Atoll
Rongelap I.
(carnivores)
(omnivores)
7/13/57
Rongelap Atoll
Kabelle I.
*Tissues were counted for radioactivity during
September 1957.
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