This study presents the tidal exchange of ammonium, nitrite ? nitrate, phosphate and silicate between two salt marshes and adjacent estuarine waters. Marsh nutrient fluxes were evaluated for Pointe-au-Père and Pointe-aux-É pinettes salt marshes, both located along the south shore of the lower St. Lawrence Estuary in Rimouski area (QC, Canada). Using nutrients field data, high precision bathymetric records and a hydrodynamic numerical model (MIKE21-NHD) forced with predicted tides, nutrients fluxes were estimated through salt marsh outlet crosssections at four different periods of the year 2004 (March, May, July and November). Calculated marsh nutrient fluxes are discussed in relation with stream inputs, biotic and abiotic marsh processes and the incidence of sea ice cover. In both marshes, the results show the occurrence of year-round and seaward NH 4 ? fluxes and landward NO 2 -? NO 3 -fluxes (ranging from 9.06 to 30.48 mg N day -1 m -2 and from -32.07 to -9.59 mg N day -1 m -2 , respectively) as well as variable PO 4 3-and Si(OH) 4 fluxes (ranging from -3.73 to 6.34 mg P day -1 m -2 and from -29.19 to 21.91 mg Si day -1 m -2 , respectively). These results suggest that NO 2 -? NO 3 -input to marshes can be a significant source of NH 4 ? through dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA). This NH 4? , accumulating in marsh sediment rather than being removed through coupled nitrification-denitrification or biological assimilation, is exported toward estuarine waters. From average P and Si tidal fluxes analysis, both salt marshes act as a sink during high productivity period (May and July) and as a source, supplying estuarine water during low productivity period (November and March).