. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 41. Figure 11. The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Hawaii at Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 1967. at the Bishop Museum. Helen also obtained a half-time post on the ciguatera project. In 1970,1 shifted to ,.| . full time at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, but continued as a member of the Graduate Faculty in Zoology at the University of Hawaii. When I came to the Museum, there had never been a Curator of Fishes. I found the fish collection of about 5,000 lots with the specimens wrapp
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 41. Figure 11. The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Hawaii at Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 1967. at the Bishop Museum. Helen also obtained a half-time post on the ciguatera project. In 1970,1 shifted to ,.| . full time at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, but continued as a member of the Graduate Faculty in Zoology at the University of Hawaii. When I came to the Museum, there had never been a Curator of Fishes. I found the fish collection of about 5,000 lots with the specimens wrapped in cloth and jammed into jars of ethanol packed in cardboard boxes in the carpenter's shed. It was a big job unwrapping them all and putting each lot in a separate jar. Eventually I was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to move the collection to a new building, and I took over the fish collections from the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Honolulu Laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Institute, and the Oceanic Institute. Over the years I have made extensive fish collections throughout the Indo-Pacific region and the Bishop Museum now has over 38,000 catalogued lots of fishes, of which 2,409 are type specimens. Also files of my fish photographs, both tank photos on 120-mm film and 35-mm underwater photos, are maintained in four refrigerators at the Museum; nearly 10,000 have been scanned by the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in the Philippines for FishBase. One of my tasks as a biologist on the ciguatera project was to collect large moray eels of the species Gymnothorax javanicus, notorious for causing ciguatera. Fifty-seven workers on a military base in Saipan ate one eel of this species (misidentified as G. flavimarginatus), said to have been one-foot thick. Within 20 minutes they knew they had been poisoned. In spite of immediate gastric lavage, 14 became comatose and two died (Khlent
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