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The Pearl Farm
Just how much work is put into making the expensive necklace many women love? Similar to a chinese sweatshop, the pearl gathering process is long and strenuous. The oysters are gathered with the aid of the pearl boat, that can transport thousand live oysters in its holding tanks. Oysters are harvested from the bottom of the ocean floors at depths of seven to 20 metres. Once finished, they are gathered, counted and weighed in. The pearl farms are best located in sheltered areas with active tides that feed the oysters and few water pollution. The pearls are harvested during the months of June and September. Here is a step by step guide to collecting pearls:
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Omg somebody call peta! All those poor oysters.
forget peta, i’d much rather have pearl strands around my neck than live oysters.
would be nice to have some captions, alot is self-explanatory but would be nice to have expanded explanations of each pic…
doesn’t look that bad of a job. i’ve seen farms that look a lot worse.
Those are great, informative photos, but they don’t match the text at the top.
The description is referring to the way South Sea pearl oysters are collected in Australia. This is the only pearl farming area that continues to use wild catch. All other pearl farms use hatchery shell.
The pictures are from Chinese freshwater pearl farms most likely in Zhejiang province. They use mussels (hatchery bred), not oysters. The pearls are grown in lakes and man-made bodies of water. The mussels in the photos are Hyriopsis cumingi, the most commonly used freshwater pearl mussel in China.
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