Pearl marketing trends with emphasis on black pearl market
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This paper was prepared in 1998 based on presentation on the situation of pearl marketing made by Messrs. Y.Hisada and T.Fukuhara, who were invited by SPADP as the project resource persons at the regional workshop on marketing of selected aquaculture commodities (seaweed, pearls and giatn clams) held during the 3rd Project Coordination Technical Meeting, 20–22 November 1997 at Nadi, Fiji. Pearls, though not as hard or durable as mineral gems, are nonetheless valued for their lustre and scarcit y. This lecture focuses on Akoya, silver- and black-lipped oysters, Mabe oysters, and the black pearl industry. Akoya pearl production in Japan was stable up to 1995, but the oysters began dying off for various reasons, and production plummeted. Several attempts to boost the Japanese pearl industry are now being taken, including using imported seed oysters and crossbreeding them on farms. A Japanese company began breeding silver-lipped oysters at Myanmar, and both Australia and Indonesia hav e had success in producing valuable, good quality pearls in the past. Australia's traditional use of wild oysters has maintained the genetic variety (and thus the vigor) of their oysters and the high quality of their pearls, and has kept Australia at the forefront of world production. Indonesia had rivaled Australia in the past, but their crowded hatchery-produced oysters have lately shown a decline in production. Mabe oysters produce a highly sought after blue-tinged pearl. Both half and sphe rical pearls grow in Mabe oysters, though the long cultivation period has been a production obstacle. Silver-lipped oysters also grow half pearls, but at present, due to the difficulty making the pearls durable, half-pearl cultivation on a large scale is inadvisable.