Table 2. --Fishes (>ca. 15 cm) counted on the 

 shoreline which had not been cleared by the FAA. 



black bunker fuel. A survey of the kill along 

 the perimeters of the channel and inner harbor 

 revealed considerable numbers of small fish, 

 very few large fish, numerous grapsoid crabs, 

 and some small sea snakes: most of these were 

 heavily fouled with black oil. The fish included 

 various pomacentrids, small scarids (parrot- 

 fishes), and acanthurids. Although the fish 

 were numerous, the total biomass of the kill 

 was relatively small, probably only a few hun- 

 dred kilograms. We learned from FAA per- 

 sonnel who worked around the docks that the 

 fish population in the harbor was normally 

 sparse. The heavy layer of oil on the surface 

 and emulsified jet fuel below precluded diving 

 in the channel or harbor; however, survival of 

 marine vertebrates and invertebrates seemed 

 unlikely under such intense contamination. 



Sea Birds 



Hundreds of thousands of sooty terns were 

 aggregated in the air to the northwest of Wilkes 

 and Peale Islands (Figure 7); frigate birds in 

 considerable numbers and a relatively few 

 shearwaters were also present. The birds 

 were concentrated over areas which did not 



Figure 7. --Large aggregations of sooty terns off the western end of the island. 



