Pearl oysters are not closely related to true oysters, being members of a distinct family, the feathered oysters ( Pteriidae ).
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After the patent was granted in 1916, the technology was immediately commercially applied to akoya pearl oysters in Japan in 1916.
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As Steingarten is leaving Pearl Oyster Bar, owner Rebecca Clark introduces herself and tells him how much she likes his book.
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Later Spanish expeditions returned to exploit these islands'abundant pearl oysters, enslaving the indigenous people of the islands and harvesting the pearls intensively.
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In combination with the discovery of new pearl oyster beds on the Guajira Peninsula, this led to a decline of Nueva C�diz.
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Pearl oyster farming and pearl culture is an important industry in Japan and many other countries bordering the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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About the only pearl diving today is practiced in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, mostly to gather living pearl oysters for the cultured-pearl industry.
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A mother of pearl bead is inserted in the animal together with a piece of tissue ( mantle ) taken from another pearl oyster.
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For the past three years, something has been killing up to 70 percent of the pearl oysters in Japan, the world's largest pearl-producing country.
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Pearl oysters are not closely related to either the edible oysters of family Ostreidae or the freshwater pearl mussels of the families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae.
