Table 1.
Gross levels of beta radioactivity in reef fishes collected at Rongelap
and Ailinginae Atolls, July 1957, expressed as uc/kg wet tissue*
Collection
date and
Locality
7/11/57
Ailinginae
Atoll
Enibuk I.
Common
name
Number of
specimens
Reef fish
32
Reef fish
51
Grouper
(Plectropomus
Muscle
Bone
038
Liver
Stomach
content
Whole
fish
.163
030
1
036
.100
26
.016
.022
.059
.026
ey
.018
.020
068
063
leopardus)
T/17/57
Rongelap
Atoll
Rongelap I.
7/18/57
Rongelap
Atoll
—
5
Kabelie I.
~
|
o
=
4
yy.
Reef fish
carnivores)
Reef fish
omnivores)
Reef fish
73
Reef fish
11
Reef fish
36
Goatfish
14
.036
~f27
370
Halfbeak
50
.016
.080
.038
_ (Mulloidichthys
samoensis }
Hyporhamphus
Inticeps)
*Counts were made during August 1957.
.028
.027
.102
.276
8.125
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