2g
(wet), which is higher than dark muscle by a fector of about
1.5 and than light muscle by a factor of about 2.
A flying
fish teken from the stomach of one of the skipjack had about
the same
level of activity
in muscle
tissue as did the skip‘ack.
Reef fish taken from the eastern shore of Guam had about the
same levels of aotivity as did the skipjeck taken approximately
350 miles to the southeast.
A
single
flying fish taken approxi-
mately 60 miles northwest of Eniwetok had about 40 times as
much activity in the liver, as did the skipjeck and Guam reef
fish, and about 3 times as much activity in the muscle.
The activity in fish tissues from Guam was greater than
that found in fish from the same area in 1955 ° by a factor
of 1.3 for liver and 6.9 for miscle, an indication there had
been some additional radioactive contamination since the time
of Operation Troll.
The levels are low even though they are
several times those found in fish from Puget Sound in 1955 *
No radiochemical] analyses were made because the activity
levels were too low for accurate determinations.
It is clear
from previous analyses of fish from contaminated areas
in the
Pacific that it is not likely strontium-90 would contribute
any of the activity, and at most two pergent of the total B-
activity.-’*
DOE ARCHIVES
A diagram of the Y spectrum of the flying fidh liver ta
shown in Pigure 11, page 40;
the presence of col tt p24
Nb?”,
indicated.
cone, 608° ond zn°?' ts
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