Abstract:
Tar balls are frequently used as an indicator of oil pollution. Terengganu is partly
bounded by 244 kilometers length coastline. Thus the coast of Terengganu will be
strongly affected by the tar balls pollution. Five sampling trips were established for this
study between May 2003 and January 2004. The study areas were visited once in two
months for collected the tar balls deposited on the beach. This study is a continuous study
of the previous project on monitoring tar balls distribution along the beach of Batu Rakit,
KUSTEM beach and Teluk Ketapang beach, as well as on the size distribution of the tar
balls.
