The oyster reef distribution in north Ariake Bay and the environmental effect of oyster cultivation
To estimate the filtration capacity by oyster in north Ariake Bay, the oyster reef distribution was measured by using aerial photographs. The total area of the oyster reefs in north Ariake Bay has decreased to about half compared with that in 1978. It results from oyster reef removal for Nori cultiv...
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Published in | ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH Vol. 45; pp. 501 - 506 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English Japanese |
Published |
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2008
公益社団法人 土木学会 |
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Summary: | To estimate the filtration capacity by oyster in north Ariake Bay, the oyster reef distribution was measured by using aerial photographs. The total area of the oyster reefs in north Ariake Bay has decreased to about half compared with that in 1978. It results from oyster reef removal for Nori cultivation. Based on field surveys, the oyster size distributions in two typical oyster reefs indicated that the oysters on the reefs are suffered from the ray prey in the unmanaged area. The estimation of oyster filtration indicated that the total filtration capacity via the oyster reef in north Ariake Bay decreased to 10% compared to that in 1978. Using the Box modeling method, effects of oyster cultivation on the amount of plankton was estimated. The cultivation oyster of 200 million pieces for one and half years reduces 360 tons of TN and 30 tons of TP.
有明海の二枚貝の減少による懸濁物質濾過能力の低下が叫ばれているなかで、かつて有明海で盛んに養殖され、懸濁物質濾過能力に優れたカキに着目し、航空写真によりカキ礁の現存量を把握した。また、現地調査によりカキ礁内のカキのサイズ分布を明らかにし、人為的に保護策が取られていない場所ではエイなどによる食害にあっている可能性示した。加えて、ノリ養殖の妨げとなるとして撤去されたカキ礁による有明海の懸濁物濾過能力の変化およびBOXモデルを用いた数値計算によりカキによるプランクトン量削減能力を推定した。そして、2億個体のカキを1年半生育させ採取すると窒素が約360t、リンが約20t取り出されることを明らかにした。 |
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ISSN: | 1341-5115 1884-829X |
DOI: | 10.11532/proes1992.45.501 |