“…Due to these features, heavy metal pollution is a growing concern throughout the world, posing threats to marine ecology and human health (Rahman and Ishiga, 2012;Phillips et al, 2015;Keshavarzi et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2018). In these years, many bays across the world have suffered disproportional heavy metal pollution (Hyun et al, 2007;Qiao et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2017;Pejman et al, 2017;Celishernandez et al, 2017;Naifar et al, 2018;Qu et al, 2018;Liang et al, 2018). Heavy metals, after finding their way into the water, adhere to and accumulate in suspended sediments before being released into the water again through complicated desorption mechanisms, so marine sediments are the "confluence" and "source" of heavy metal contents (Singh et al, 2005;Guan et al, 2016).…”