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SUMMARY
The Bot River estuary is normally closed to the sea and its bacterial population fluctuates seasonally, peaking in late summer. Parameters such as temperature, salinity, organic nutrients and turbidity may directly or indirectly cause these fluctuations. The spatial distribution of this bacterial population differs from that of open estuaries studied elsewhere. However, artificial opening of the estuary results in a distribution pattern similar to that of open estuaries.