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Bacteriological and Physiochemical Quality of Seawater and Surface Sediments in Sacheon Bay  

Park, Jun-Yong (Dept. of Seafood Sci. & Techn.(Insti. of Agri. and Life Sci.), Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Kim, Yeong-In (Major of Ocean Civil Engineering, Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Bae, Ki-Sung (Major of Ocean Civil Engineering, Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Oh, Kwang-Soo (Dept. of Seafood Sci. & Techn.(Insti. of Agri. and Life Sci.), Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Choi, Jong-Duck (Dept. of Seafood Sci. & Techn.(Insti. of Agri. and Life Sci.), Gyeongsang National Univ.)
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Journal of agriculture & life science / v.44, no.2, 2010 , pp. 7-15 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the bacteriological and physiological quality of seawater and surface sediments in Sacheon Bay of Korea from January to September in 2009. During the study period, the means of temperature was range from 5.3 to $24.9^{\circ}C$ (mean $17.7{\pm}0.4^{\circ}C$), transparency range from 1.4 to 2.5 m (mean $1.8{\pm}0.5m$), suspended solid ranged from 16.2 to 35.8 mg/L (mean $24.2{\pm}2.2mg/L$), chemical oxygen demand ranged from 1.42 to $3.29mgO_2/L$ (mean $2.06{\pm}0.55mgO_2/L$), dissolved oxygen ranged from 6.7 to 9.5mg/L (mean $7.9{\pm}0.6mg/L$), respectively. Seafood, if eaten raw, carries the risk of food poisoning. Seafood poisoning is often cause by pathogenic microorganism originating from fecal contamination, such as Salmonella sp., Shigella sp. and norovirus. Fecal coliforms are an important indicator of fecal contamination. Therefor, data on fecal coliform are very important for evaluating the safety of fisheries in coastal areas. So, we investigated the sanitary indicate bacteria. In this study, 56 sea water samples were collected from the Sacheon Bay, and total and fecal coliforms were compared and analyzed. The coliform group and fecal coliform MPN's of sea water in Sacehon Bay were ranged from <1.8~7,900 MPN/100mL (GM 214.7 MPN/100mL) and <1.8~330 MPN/100mL (GM 9.7 MPN/ 100mL), respectively. Total coliforms were detected in 75.0% of the samples and 76.2% of the total coliforms were fecal coliforms. During the study period, the means of water content, ignition loss, COD, and acid volatile sulfates in sediments in Sacheon Bay were $53.28{\pm}2.58%$, $9.38{\pm}0.42%$, $14.23{\pm}3.36mgO_2/g$, $0.09{\pm}0.07mgS/g$, respectively.
Keywords
Sea water; Sacheon Bay; Total coliform; Fecal coliform; Surface sediments;
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