The official warned the spill is a "serious threat" to marine life and water quality, and recent environmental crisis China has spread off the coast of Dalian, once named the most livable city in China.
A cleaning worker was drowned, his body covered with oil.
"I have been to a few bays of today, and discovered that they were almost completely covered with dark oil," said Zhong Yu environment Greenpeace group in China, which spent the whole day on a boat verify the spill.
Oil half solid and half liquid and as sticky as asphalt, "she told The Associated Press by telephone.
Oil seized 165 square miles (430 km) of water 5 days after the pipeline to the port is busy north exploded, causing damage to the supply of oil from strategic reserves of crude oil in China in the rest of the country. Delivery remains the reduction of the medium.
State media said no more oil flows into the sea, and the total volume of spilled oil not yet clear.Greenpeace China released photos Wednesday in ink beaches and straw mats about 2 square meters (21 square feet) in size, scattered over the sea, means to absorb the oil.
Fishing in the waters around Dalian has been banned until the end of August, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
"Oil spills are a serious threat to marine animals and water quality and marine birds," Huang Yong, deputy chief of the Bureau of Maritime City Safety Administration, said Dragon TV.
At least one person died during cleanup efforts. 25-year-old firefighter, Zhang Liang, drowned Tuesday when a wave threw him out of the vessel, reported Xinhua.
The officials, oil company workers and volunteers produced hundreds of clean blackened beaches.
"We do not have the necessary materials for oil refining, so our employees in rubber gloves and use chopsticks," the official Jinshitan Golden Beach administrative committee told Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, obviously irritation.
"This inefficiency means petroleum continue to come ashore. ... This area is very difficult to clean up oil in the short term."
But the 40-oil skimming vessels and some 800 fishing vessels were also deployed to clean up the spill, but Xinhua said more than 15 km (9 miles) of oil barriers were created to save the spot distribution.
China Central Television reported score of 1500 tons of oil spilled. This amount to about 400,000 gallons (1,500,000 liters) - compared with 94 million to 184 million gallons of BP oil spill off the coast of the United States.
China's State Oceanic Administration released the final size of the contaminated territories in its statement on Tuesday.
The cause of the explosion, which began flooding was still not clear. The pipeline belongs to China National Petroleum Corporation, Asia's largest oil and gas from the total.
images Friday in 100 feet tall (30-meter) flames at the second largest port in China's crude oil imports drew immediate attention of President Hu Jintao and other leaders. The challenge now is to clean oily plume.
"Our priority is to collect spilled oil within five days to reduce the likelihood of contamination of international waters," the vice-mayor of Dalian, Dai Yulin, told Xinhua on Tuesday.
But an official of the State Ocean Administration warned the spill will be difficult to remove even twice as long.
Some locals said the area's economy is already hurting.
"Let's wait and see how well they deal with oil before September 1, if the oil can not be remedied by the time the seafood, everything will be destroyed," said an unnamed fisherman Dragon TV. "Nobody will buy them on the market because of the smell of oil."
