ОСОБЕННОСТИ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННОГО РАСПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ ГИДРОХИМИЧЕСКИХ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ В КУРШСКОМ ЗАЛИВЕ БАЛТИЙСКОГО МОРЯ В 2018-2022 ГОДАХ

Abstract

Curonian Bay of the Baltic Sea is a lagoon that is considered to be a water body of the highest fisheries importance. Its current geoenvironmental status is characterized by a number of problems: influx of biogenic substances from a large catchment area, algal bloom, etc. As part of the monitoring surveys of the habitat of aquatic living resources that were conducted in the Russian waters of the Curonian Lagoon in 2018-2022, the spatial distribution of hydrochemical parameters was investigated in 6 areas established on the basis of their morphometric and hydrological features: Teply (Warm) Bay, western, central, eastern, and southern areas, and the Neman River discharge zone. Hydrochemical conditions in Teply Bay were characterized by a considerable deviation of dissolved oxygen concentrations from the rest of the Russian waters of the Curonian Lagoon, as well as by the higher values of BOD5 and ammonia nitrogen, and lower values of pH and nitrate nitrogen. In the western area, the lowest content of dissolved oxygen, BOD5, ammonia, and nitrate nitrogen was recorded. In the southern area, there was a reduced content of ammonia nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen. In the central area, the values of hydrochemical parameters were close to the average ones for Russian waters. The eastern and Neman River discharge areas, exposed to significant influence of the Neman River runoff, were characterized by a high concentration of nitrate nitrogen during seasonal flood, as well as by increased values of ammonia nitrogen and BOD5 during algal bloom in summer.