| 11. | She also tells him that the lagoon is indeed thick with pearl oysters.
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| 12. | Cats slumber across finely carved tables with inlaid mother-of-pearl oyster shell.
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| 13. | These bivalves are the largest pearl oysters in the world.
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| 14. | "It's too expensive to go out and just keep looking for pearl oysters ."
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| 15. | Some kinds of pearl oysters are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle.
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| 16. | In nature, pearl oysters produce pearls by covering a minute invasive object with nacre.
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| 17. | You won't find it at Mermaid Inn, Pearl Oyster Bar, Oceana or Masa, either.
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| 18. | Can a tiny place like the Pearl Oyster Bar be said to have a bad table?
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| 19. | The pearl oysters that were once the archipelago's main source of wealth disappeared after the 1950s.
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| 20. | A mysterious disease the last several years has almost made Japan's pearl oysters an endangered species.
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