Uptake of Mixed Fission Products by Marine Fishes
- 1 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 95 (2) , 145-152
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1966)95[145:uomfpb]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Laboratory experiments were conducted to measure uptake of fission products by spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), Atlantic croaker (Micro-pogon undulatus), and bluefish[long dash](Pomatomus saltatrix). Availability of fission products to the fish was curtailed considerably by the formation and settling of radioactive particles in the water and by sorption to abiotic surfaces. Spot and croaker accumulated relatively low levels of radioactive material from sea water. After a single oral dose, croaker assimilated a maximum of 14% in 4 hours, but 94% of the original dose was eliminated after 4 days. Bluefish assimilated only 3% of the cumulative dose of mixed fission products in shrimp meat given on alternate days during a 55-day period. Of the amount assimilated by croaker and blue fish from oral doses, the largest concentrations were found in the internal organs.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: