Japan’s famous akoya pearls have never been more in demand but, as seas warm and younger generations move to the city, the ...

Pearl oyster farming represents a sophisticated intersection of aquaculture, marine biology and sustainable economic development. The production process involves the careful selection of oysters, the ...

Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Competition for the rarest pearls is fierce. Late last year a mesmerising two-strand necklace of multicoloured ...

South Dakota native John Latendresse was on a cross-country road trip in 1949 when he found himself at Kentucky Lake in Tennessee. Looking out at the divers combing the fertile lakebeds for mussels to ...

According to researchers at Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BRFI), more than 150 pearl farmers in 90 upazilas under 41 districts of the country are currently engaged in cultivating about 6,00 ...

Pearl farming is being revived in Western Australia's Pilbara region with the first farm opening next month. Pearl farming, which still thrives in the Kimberley, was abandoned in the Pilbara by the ...

Pearl farming has helped to lift a seaside village out of poverty in South China's Guangdong province. Nanzhu, or south pearl in English, refers to the pearls produced in the Beibu Gulf off the coast ...