| 1. | Saltwater pearl oysters are usually cultivated in protected lagoons or volcanic atolls.
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| 2. | The local pearl oyster is Golden Lip Oyster, " Pinctada maxima ".
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| 3. | Saltwater pearls grow within pearl oysters, family Pteriidae, which live in oceans.
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| 4. | Like Marokau, Hikueru used to be a large natural pearl oyster Hao.
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| 5. | Freshly opened pearl oysters Oysters must be eaten alive, or cooked alive.
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| 6. | Pearls are also produced from freshwater mussel species unrelated to pearl oysters.
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| 7. | Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pterioida.
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| 8. | In the last pearl oyster harvest in 1944, 20, 000 oysters were opened.
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| 9. | The gulf has many fishing grounds, extensive coral reefs, and abundant pearl oysters.
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| 10. | After the Second World War the farming of pearl oysters declined.
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