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TW present report gives available data through 1958 Including but uoin~ ash weight as well as wet weight, with a modification of renults, and a comparison of’activity yielded by fine-mesh as conSdTli.VS at later dates, up to more than four years after the origd?:rin~da:ji~ght,and within 3 (usually 1-2) miles of the localities indicated In Table 2. “,?1029” by I,icansof pumping which not only perml.tteda more precise measurtm(’n~of volume of sea water filtered, and pin-pointing of locatlcn of the sampling station than Is possible vith tows, but also allowed s~&ul$aneous sampling of the la~oon-bottom material. Thus,
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at the ten consecutively numbered stat~ons indicated in Figure 1, ranging slang the souther)~ani eastern portions of the lagoon, fir ighting pump with a capacity of ab>:l+.b’.)z~il~ns per rnin~t~)while at the other six stations with the iii~uth of the ]~et above water, so that all pumped “water were ottalned, tinddcLris from the s:hipseemed unavoidable. i:lkc;’~sL near Kabellc”Island. Hire the bucket wa~ removed from the net .mi t:~e end of the net tied closed. After t’owing,the net was Wd.ii-led clown,drained, untied, and the plankton scraped directly into at tl]e bqonet-type l’ittin.gof the plankton bucket, and expedited the serva~ive fluid was filtered from the plankton and tested for radiodiscarding. This avoided most
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were evapor~ted to dryness, so that.the”sample from Station 7 lnti-,ankeln& corrected back to date of collecting as was done for the 1)54-55 m~erlal. It is prob?.ble that if corrections for decay could have been applied.to the 1~~( cistathe levels on the date of’col.lec- ‘i?Ls CL’r’h’lll?d. .:”.IJiViA.Ual Plate values appear in order to show the of Lo~h wet ;>l?ukton and pl:mktonic ash in order to assess the relative IM!w-+hr.’?ts.Tti~ ~q’~alitsprev~lls on either wet weight or ash weight basis P simultaneous tows with coarse and fineum.>n~th~ Ieripairs o.
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1. Leveis of ~ctivity of were smpied nine times in the plankton for the easte~ lagoon . still bktween 15 and 100, but by early March l~58~”L.~ddeclined,;. , ‘,.’,4 - b 2. From the data for the years 1954-57, it ‘~ uho~~,that results ‘. ce in activity ““ while the declins
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