akoya oyster populations should return to health, probably by the year 2002. Thinning may solve the problem, Müller says, because lower shell density usually results in a higher quality pearl.

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To reduce irritation, the mollusk coats the intruder with the same secretion it uses for shell-building ... freshwater pearls are round enough and good enough to pass as Japanese akoya.

Pearls may soon be cultivated in European seas for the first time ever, as Italian oyster farmers seek to exploit an ...

Case in point: shell nails, the new nail trend ... its translucent shimmer-laced nail polish, Akoya, which is a perfect companion to a piece of pearl-encrusted jewellery. In fact, I’m so very ...

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The genus ot shell-fish, Pentadinrz, furnishas the finest pearls as well as mo-ther-ot-pearl: it is found round the coasts of Ceylon, near Ormus, in the Persian Gulf, at Cape Comorin, and in some ...

"I'm worried that some may close their business," said Takao Suzuki, a senior official at the Tategami Akoya Pearl Aquaculture ... Fishery Cooperative Pearl Shell Research Institute in Uwajima ...

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Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

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