Quality shell beads imported from the Mississippi River bed in America that will be inserted into the oysters as a nucleus for the pearls to form.
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At the seeding station, a skilled grafter cuts an incision on the oyster with a scalpel and inserts a shell bead as well as a small piece of mantle tissue from donor native oysters.
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The nylon nets containing the seeded oysters are strung from wooden rafts and placed over calm, sheltered waters.
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The oysters are hauled up regularly for cleaning so that barnacles, algae and parasites can be scraped from their shells before being re-submerged.
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After four to six years, upon maturity, the oysters are brought up fro harvesting at the Silumpat Selatan (at Southern part of Malaysia) station.
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Workers deftly split open the two halves of an oyster with a knife and pries the shells apart to gather the pearl inside.
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...the reveal a perfectly formed pearl. This will be sold but inferior pearls will cast into the sea.
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