The tar balls pollution along the coast of Kuala Terengganu

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.