Dear MARMAMERs, It may serve the general marine mammal community to know what has been or should be learned about the affect on marine mammals from radioactive contamination of a marine environment. Therefore, this is a request for references to scientific studies or documentation on the affect on marine mammals from the 300 tons of contaminated water known to be entering the ocean every day since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. As such studies are likely to be in Japanese, it is unlikely that their data and conclusions have been widely circulated. They so far have eluded every effort we've made to find them. It is necessary to clarify that this request is about the professional scientific response to the contamination, with no inference to the political, social, national or industry response. In the event that no scientific studies are complete or in progress it may be useful to conduct some. The relevant comment from this Guardian article at <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/fukushima-fallout-threatens-fishermens-livelihoods> is that: "The environment ministry recently announcement that 300 tonnes of contaminated groundwater from Fukushima Daiichi is still seeping over or around barriers into the Pacific every day, more than two years after it was struck by a tsunami in March 2011. Government officials said they suspected the leaks had started soon after the accident, which resulted in a nuclear meltdown." Thank you, William W. Rossiter President Cetacean Society International 65 Redding Road-0953 Georgetown, CT 06829-0953 t/c: 203.770.8615, f: 860.561.0187 rossiter@csiwhalesalive.org www.csiwhalesalive.org