Assessment on heavy metals in seawater, surface sediments and organisms at Guangxi inshore

Based on the monitoring data obtained from Guangxi inshore in 1998, the concentrations and distributions of the heavy metals in sea water, surface sediments and organisms, the correlation between the heavy metals and the organic matters, and the accumulation of the heavy metals in the organisms were studied. The results show that the concentrations of the heavy metals in the sea water were partly polluted by Pb, and the sediments were partly polluted by Cu, Pb and As, and the organisms were partly polluted by Cd in Guangxi inshore.