National Jeweler online reported recently that Mikimoto (you surely know this name) has found that one of its pearl farms– this one located in the open seas off Fukuoka Prefecture, as opposed to the closed, calmer bay waters traditionally used for akoya cultivation– has yielded a small crop of unusually excellent akoya pearls of a large size and fine quality.“The results have been astounding at this new akoya pearl farm,” the company reports, due primarily to better water temperatures, larger and stronger native oysters, ideal ocean currents and better nutrient-rich phytoplankton feed to produce an improved host oyster with a significantly lower mortality rate that results in a higher percentage of high lustre and good colour pearls for which both the species and the company are typically known for.
“Cultivating pearls using native oysters in this area heralds an important new advance in Japanese pearl production, at a time when the amount of high-quality akoya pearls is feared to be decreasing,” the company said. This past winter at Ainoshima, pearls were harvested from 10,000 akoya pearl oysters that had been raised to maturity over the past four years. Nearly 12,000 pearls were harvested. The goal for 2010 is to harvest pearls from 50,000 akoya oysters, with the number of oysters to be harvested expected to grow to 200,000 within the next three years, the company said.
Is this the dawn of a new akoya cultivation business, using home-grown, disease-free, natural pearl oysters to revive a moribund Japanese pearl industry? We can only hope so.
PERLEMEISTER
source: National Jeweler online
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The article states 12,000 high-quality pearls from 10,000 shell. Huh?! Even grafting two per shell, those numbers don't seem plausible.
Mie Prefecture looks like Nirvana to me. I hope I can work there someday even just picking some thorns on the devine Akoya pearl oysters.
They said Akoya pearls are small but they are the most lustrous so when bigger ones comes along I think I will treasure them more than the South Sea pearls.
It is possible for oysters to be virus resistant until viruses leaps form and it will be another problem. And eons after eons the oysters finally realize that the key for their survival is never to produce pearls so that greedy men will stop looking for them and they started leaving their shells and climb trees as worms. Even before this they already know how to reject pearls but persistent men still inserted nucleaus with up to 3 succesful insemination and harvest the oysters are murdered and eaten as delicacy for the well heeled folks who don't value our life excpet for Kokichi Mikimoto who buried us in a cemetery and prayed for our soul.
What choice do oysters have? They are lesser than humans and they could not speak and ask for help. Though oysters may not have brains but they have feelings and they gave us the most beautiful things in the world- pearls!
Who knows after another eternity these oysters could evolved into something greater than us if humans permits. Don't forget we are smaller than a fish long before we became tuna, apes and then humans.
In reply to Sinasamba Kita I would like to know what he/she is smoking, drinking or ingesting 'cos I want some!!
I always wonder why Akoya pearls and Bahrain pearls are more lustrous than thicker nacre South Sea pearls. If it is really about water temperature, salinity or wateva then a 12 mm akoya pearl should be more valuable than a 12 mm South Sea pearl. Though small I always find akoya pearls more lustrous and beautiful. It is like a small perfect diamond that I prefer than large less than perfect diamonds. I guess I have an addiction about perfection.
I don't smoke, drink and inject anything to my body/temple.
I'm perfectly healthy and off course you don't think the way I think because you are different.
Don't worry I am not retarded because I have an IQ 115. Not genius but not average. And I only watch intelligent movies recognized by the Academy Awards.
But if you really want to know what I eat and drink? Why don't you come here and I'll serve them for you.
Hola!
I always wonder why Jewelry Television can sell their gems and jewelries at unbelievable low prices! I understand they buy direct from the source and buying in bulk so they get huge discounts and pass the savings to consumers.
All of my favorite dream gems are sold there and I can easily afford them like a natural 1/3 ct bixbite for $26! Pigeon blood red rubies, Kashmir sapphires and Colombian emeralds, 100% color change alexandrite of the finest examples whether natural or lab created and a huge 15mm silvery white South Sea pearl perfectly round good luster for less than $300! It may have acceptable flaws visible all throughout the stone but the size is amazing! I wanna see something like that on my Mother's fingers and ears.
Now I finally found the place to shop for my jewelry dreams that won't put a hole in my pocket.
Chateau Kiki
They don't buy from the source. You see them at every show in Hong Kong buying from dealers just like everyone else. The only difference, they buy the shit others won't touch. Also, you always know it is them coz they wear shirts that say Jewelry Television. When the dealers see them coming they shelve the good stuff and roll out the shit.
In response to anoynymous I don't need to use any illegal paraphernalia to feel high.
In response to anonymous then why is it that Jewelry Televison has the lowest prices I have ever seen?
You just answered your own question.
Stones and pearls can be expensive. Shit stones can be dirt cheap just like shit pearls can be dirt cheap. That is why their prices are so low. Their quality is comparable to their prices.
Ok I understand that high quality gems can be so pricy but how can you explain the second rarest red gem or gemstone in the world bixbite sold for $26 weighing 1/3 ct?
How can you explain a round South Sea pearl larger than 15mm costing less than $300? I know pearls like this are not perfect but the size is a must have. Good luster is not bad and not reject. And for only $300? And you can even return it if you want. Now is there anyone out there that sells these gems at a much cheaper price?
Why not? There's certainly a market for bixite and large pearls. Just thinking about their unbelievable low prices gives me an orgasm.
I think pearls can be mass produced but bixbite can't. They will be such great affordable gifts to anyone even your to your maids. I'm thinking of seeing a homeless person wearing a 15mm South Sea pearl on her ring. I'm thinking a poor gem collector owning a 1/3 ct bixbite which is probably the rarest gem on earth next to red diamonds.
Why can't other companies buy this dirt cheap gems to sell to this people who don't have much money to buy anything that will make them look and feel good and beautiful?
How can you explain a round South Sea pearl larger than 15mm costing less than $300?
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Don't you realize that you keep answering your own questions?
If you want the cheap stuff, the garbage that a real jeweler will not touch, you don't have to go to jewelry television, you can just go to eBay.
But I wan't your own expert answer. I need it like I need water. Please I'm so thirsty.
I find JTV cheaper than Ebay and I don't trust Ebay.
Trying to explain something to you is liking talking to a dining room table.
a factor in the akoya pearl sometimes having better lustre than the same south sea pearl is that most akoya pearls are treated to improve lustre and color whereas south sea pearls are not treated and are only cleaned and polished to remove organic matter. That is the beauty of south sea pearls when you buy a beautiful lusturous white/pink south sea pearl it is all natural and if looked after will stay that way for a very long time, the same akoya pearl will lose it's lustre/color in 5-10 years as the chemicals wear off.
Does the finest Mikimoto akoya cultured pearls are treated?
Do you believe in the theory that pearls from the Persian Gulf and the seas around Japan are more lustrous because of the combination of sweet and salty water? Does cold water makes pearls more lustrous too?
Explain please...
how about a lump of coal stuck in a dead horse's ass? he's a bit more complex than just a simple lump of coal don't you think, z.e.?
I would try Alpha Imports NYC for all manner of rare gemstones at the lowest prices. Their fancy pink diamonds are a steal. Just say Bagheera sent you.
Whoever said that an oyster is higher than humans is the ultimate idiot!
Oysters don't even have brainds Z.E. or maybe you are the next step of the oyster evolution.
But you are still billions of light years away from being smarter than a toad.
You must learn to respect coal because they are related to diamonds. Diamonds are higher than pearls so you rather stuck your pearls on a dead horse ass.
If you want such pearls Ana'L Pearls creates the most sensual and pleasurable pearls in the world better than Mikimoto and Paspaley Pearls.
No I haven't tried it but I'm sure you haved. After all the shit pearls you've hoard I'm sure you found all the possible ways to use it.
Sincerely yours,
Choli Chalot
Zeidi is that really you? I think the pearl people just like to use your name to to defame and say shit about someone else. I think it pretty much explain about their character which is full of bullshit! They are good examples of their produce. Shallow pearls with no depth!
Show us the golden pearl you bought.
How about a lump of coal stuck in a dead horse's ass that has been in a bog for a year...
"Anonymous said...
If you want such pearls Ana'L Pearls creates the most sensual and pleasurable pearls in the world better than Mikimoto and Paspaley Pearls."
Is this, like, your way of coming out of the closet dude? Right here in the pearl blog comments? Whateva...
Z.E. and my favorit poster...
Could it ever get better than this on a blog?
BTW since your here Ziede: My recipe for the basic white trash "quizine" ( I don't how to spell it) is this one.
Chipped Beef on Toast
Brown 1/4 cup of white flour in a 1/4 cup of lard.
Add 1 can of unsweetened condensed canned milk and add more water until the gravy is just right. A dollop of margarine gives a little extra flavor
Add one little 4 oz jar of chipped beef and stir. Simmer gently while you make white bread toast slathered with any inespensive margarine.
This should serve a family of four or you can add fried potatoes if you have a teen.
You can subtitute bacon grease for the lard, and/ or powdered milk for the canned but this gravy is basic to everything in Homemade trailer park cooking. If you want, you can put tuna in it, or chesse and noodles, that is if the store is out of boxed mac 'n cheese.
Other than chip beef, grits is my favorite. grits 'n gravey can get anyone thru to the next welfare check.
For the one with the 115 IQ- you got me beat, Im a 99 the only time I took it, but I know how to cook, which a lots of the other gals in my park don't know how.
Ps. You can always get white flour, lard, and baking powder at the Food bank, so no one can go hungry if you can cook.
White flour with cold lard cut in it a dab of water and you got biskits! Just put them in patties , squoosh into a pan and bake, if yor oven works. If not a hot plate will work if you can find a cover for the pan. I got my gt granmaa's cast iron fry pan. That's the best.You can cook anything in that.
Worst come to worst biskits n gravey is the cheapest way to go.
Thank the Lord for biskits and graveyx!
PRAISE THE LARD! PRAISE THE LARD! YES PRAISE THE POWER OF THE LARD!
And what's wrong with a little schmaltz? You can't make a good chopped liver without a couple of spoonfuls of schmaltz,it doesn't taste like its suppose to.
I'm not afraid of lard. I would just love to cook with it again but the doctor says that genetic freak of a drunk husband of mine has some kind of clogged artery disease and is starting the altsimers too. I do miss my lard. You gals are lucky because none of these other fats is making me happy and when I'm not happy the sex life is just some awful.I need to go on Oprah. LOL
"Sinasamba Kita (I Worship You) said...
Who knows after another eternity these oysters could evolved into something greater than us if humans permits. Don't forget we are smaller than a fish long before we became tuna, apes and then humans."
Just because I don't have dorsal fins, doesn't mean man evolved from TUNA. In your case maybe there is a strong family resemblance.
put.med
i didn't say we evolve from tuma i was giving exanples of how far we have been from bacteria to humans.
and as a doctor i assume you don't believe in God and i expect you to have no manners.
go to hell.
Bigwell is that you?
I doubt that is bigwell, Whoever wrote that believes in evolution. I think it is our favorite heart sharing his love with us again.
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