• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.96-108
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• 1998

The management of water quality and fishery resources with a major environmental problem in eutrophic coastal sea is studied. The numerical experiments using the water-sediment quality model (WSQM) were carried out for the management of water quality at the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. The results of long-term water quality simulation showed responses of seawater quality to input loads to vary in different localities. A formula roughly forecasting water qualify to estimate the effect of loading abatement was proposed. The simulation for the improvement of seawater quality showed the abatements of nutrient loads such as total phosphorus (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) as well as organic loads such as chemical oxygen demand (COD) to be peformed in the eastern Seto Inland Sea from Bisan Seto to Osaka Bay. On the other hand, it is indicated that the increase of loading leads to the increase of primary production. while not straightly to the increase of fish production for the catch of fisheries.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

Numerical study on coastal water quality management was conducted to examine the response of summer water quality to the flow into the sea of land based pollution load in Ulsan Bay, Korea The abatement of pollution load. from point sources of land was estimated on the basis of Korean coastal water quality standard using an ecosystem model. The results of the ecological model simulation showed that COD values in the inner part of the bay were greater than 280mg/L, and exceeded the grade III limit of Korean coastal water quality standard 30% of all land based pollution loads or organic and inorganic material loads from point sources should be cut down to keep the COD levels below 2mg/L. As environmental carrying capacity was estimated to be 7,193kgCOD/day to keep the COD levels below 2mg/L in Ulsan Bay, 3,083kgCOD/day of land based organic loads should be reduced. The phytoplankton blooms have occurred in the Teahwa river mouth or estuary repetitively, so it is important to control land based nutrients loads for removal of autochthonous organic loads around Ulsan Bay.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.235-235
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• 2017

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.57-69
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• 2007

This study focused on coastal water quality response to land-based and sediment pollution loads and estimation of the carrying capacity in Masan Bay using an ecological model with the data in summer of 2002. A residual current was simulated to have a slightly complicated pattern with ranging from 0.1 to 1.5 cm/s. In Masan Bay, pollutant materials cannot flow from the inner to the outer bay easily because of residual currents flow southward at surface and northward at the bottom. The simulation results of COD distribution showed high concentrations over 3 mg/L in the inner part of Masan Bay related pollutant discharge. For improvement seawater quality grade I in Masan Bay, it is necessary to reduce the organic and inorganic loads from point sources by more than 80%. For improvement seawater quality grade II, it is necessary to reduce the organic and inorganic loads from point sources by more than 50% and ameliorate severe polluted sediment. The carrying capacity for COD is 2.32 ton/day and 7.16 ton/day for each grade.