Children ask me, why are there so many pearl farmers in Cook Islands? How can I explain it clearly?

This question is more interesting. First of all, the South Pacific island countries mainly produce black pearls, and black pearls have only two main natural producing areas: one is Tahiti, Polynesia, which produces 95% of the world's black pearls; Second, Penglin Island and Majushiki Island in Cook Islands account for 4% of the total output, while the output of other Pacific islands is less than 1%. These two areas live together in the south-central Pacific Ocean, so they are also called black pearls as black Nanyang pearls. We only need to discuss why the black pearls in Tahiti are famous, and we can understand that there are many large pearl farmers there. Because Tahiti has a long history of pearl picking, it can be traced back to ancient Greece. There is an old legend that the dew of the moon fell into the world. When dew drops into the shell of a black butterfly, it gathers the essence of the sun and the moon and becomes a charming black pearl in Tahiti. So most natural black pearls are dripping. The pearls handed down from the European royal family also confirm this point.

/kloc-In the middle of the 0/9th century, fishing boats from Sydney, San Francisco and Chile caught a large number of black mussels here. They wanted not only pearls, but also the inner layer of black shell with beautiful and colorful pearl layers to meet the needs of European button industry at that time. After more than a century of overfishing, the black mussel resources in Tahiti were on the verge of extinction by the middle of the 20th century.

The experiment of pearl culture in Tahiti began in 196 1 year, and Japanese pearl culture technology was adopted. But it was not until 1966 that some pearl farms began to appear, and they were not very successful in business. It was not until 1972 that French Polynesia began to export Tahiti black pearls abroad, and only 1563 kg was exported that year.

Tahiti Black Pearl is a specialty of French Polynesia Salt Lake in the South China Sea. It is precious and unusual, and enjoys the reputation of "the queen's pearl" and "the queen among pearls". It is very difficult to cultivate black pearls in Tahiti. The process of cultivating pearl oyster is very long and easy to die. Coupled with the influence of weather and water quality, finished products are very scarce. There are five standards for the quality grade of Tahiti black pearl, namely, volume, shape, color, skin gloss and purity.

After the answer, you can simply explain it to your child! ~