HAIKOU — In the waters of a southern Chinese island, scores of palm-sized pearl oysters hang tidily on the breeding cages. These oysters, scientifically known as Pinctada maxima, are primarily found ...

Save articles for future reference. The wild harvest licence for 2023 has been set at more than 1 million shells, up from 860,000 in 2021. Add demand and nature playing ball with work to improve ...

For centuries, researchers have puzzled over how oysters grow stunningly symmetrical, perfectly round pearls around irregularly shaped grains of sand or bits of debris. Now a team has shown that ...

FROM June until August 1960 an oceanographic survey of the lagoon at Manihiki Atoll, an atoll lying 10° south of the equator in the Northern Cook Group, was carried out by members of the New Zealand ...

Registration forms will be available from all International Village information booths, the Pinctada Pearls Exhibition Outlet or the judging garden registration desk. Contestants should present ...

This file photo taken on Nov 24, 2022 shows a Pinctada maxima shell and pearls at the scientific research trial breeding project in Changjiang Li autonomous county, South China's Hainan province.