Area: 50 x 50 ydd 
Poison: 25 lbs cube 
INDEX:: 561/2500:: «224 
FIELD DATA RECORD 
Division of Fishes 
U. S. National Museum 
POISON 
A 
Acc. No. _ Tag No. S~ij.6r3.45. .A ND_ Sfa. No. .345_ 
State or Country: . EtA. 6r.3 5.Q. .t hr QUgk _Srifc6-3_6Q..Cl.P.lU S . Ill. 
County: -C/Yy: - 
Locality: .. _Quter. reef. jae.ar. JM. .tip. .of. .Bikini._ID_«,_ 
.Bikini*. Atoll..(di r.ec.tly. out. _fx.cn .CB. jsaM.-c over ed _ hut )| 
Drainage: _ Date: -fed 14 Aug 1946 
Water: _ A..po.ol. encircled _ by_.Q.oral,_ si ze §0_ x _50_yds 
.. t • • • • and 5 feet deep 
Vegetation: _ __■__ _- 
_ Time: _ _1Q3Q “133 Q__ 
Botfom: _S Q&d_____ 
Shore: mile._outon. reef_ Current: none _at _ low tide 
Distance from shore: _ Tide: ____ 
Depth of capture: _25._ 13?.?__Q®._ Depth of water: _ 
Method of capture: nerzpn. and. dijmets_ 
Crfhctaf V E.S.SeraId, mcmitor <m<J 5 JSU_ 
Preservative: ForfllAlilL_ Temp: _ Air: _ 
List of species or kinds, with tag numbers if drawn or discussed: _ 
By contrast with the station run yesterday which 
was the same type habitat as found over most of the 
outer Bikini reef-very few fishes were observed 
on the outer Bikini reef. Walked from a point 
roughly \ mile east of station S-46-253, east 
along the Lithothamnion ridge and ibund absolutely 
nothing in areas which shallow water and much 
abundant coral that should, have been teoning with 
small fishes-checked the outer reef beyond the 
surge channels and found it to be fairly normall. 
During the course of the above reconnaissance, 3/4 
mile of shoreline was covered-and only one pool 
was observed that was at all comparable with the 
same habitat of yesterday at Enyu (S-46-333)* At 
this point came towardst he shore from the L. ridge 
and about 1/3 mile from the ridge towards the share, 
discovered many sandy areas about 6 feet deep and 
shallower, sane of which had fishes, but not in 
great abundance-the one exception in numbers of 
fishes in this area was the enclosed-by-coral sandy 
area in which this station was run-and it was 
simply lousy with fishes-most interesting was t he 
fact that there was a large school of several hundre 
Fistularia in the pool-and in contrast with the 
the few needlefish which were swimming at the sur- 
fact-they were all at the bottom-and were very 
sltggish-reminding one of the Florida Gars in the 
Springs of that state. OVER 
