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Pacific pearls proliferate

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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  • Oceania
  • World
  • Melanesia
  • Polynesia
citation

CTA. 2000. Pacific pearls proliferate. Spore 90. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

Over the last six years, there have been concerted efforts to adapt the culturing of the black pearl oyster to conditions in the western Pacific. In 1999, the Cook Islands pearl farms earned US$ 5 million. Currently the Solomon, Fiji and Marshall...

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