제주도 주변 연근해 해역의 수중침적 폐기물 실태 현황

Abstract

Recently marine environment has been drastically and seriously polluted by the activities relating to the fishery and leisure in the Korean coastal zone. Especially, many environmental problems are arising from marine litter, especially, including the seabed litters, which input into the ocean over the limitation of self purification capability of marine environments. In order to recover the contaminated marine environments, first of all, the present status about seabed litters should be investigated. Such an investigation can make it possible to manage seabed litters systematically and to support the relevant litters disposal project effectively. In this paper, an investigation on the status of seabed litters on the bottom of the sea off the coast of Jeju Island was carried out. The major results of this investigation were summarized as presentation of characteristics on the distribution of seabed litters.