I have now received the referee's report on your paper,Effect of historical residual hexachlorocyclohexanes and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane on bacterial communities in sediment core collected from an estuary in northeastern China by next-generation sequencing. I am pleased to say that it is acceptable for publication in Marine Pollution Bulletin, subject to the referee's comments attached.
I hope you can attend to the referee's points, which accord closely with my own. Given only the one sample, please restrict your conclusions to what is defensible!
For your guidance, reviewers' comments are appended below.