When designers figured out a way to make cultured and even “fake” pearls, the door opened for all women to get their own strands, often at staggeringly long lengths. Today, wild pearls are ...

Commercially-bred pearl lobsters sell for about $50 per kilogram, while wild-caught pearl lobsters sell for $99 per kilogram. This makes pearl lobsters more than 6 times more expensive than Maine ...

Several years ago our company went through the extra step of initiating a breeding program, so we actually breed our oysters and then release them into the wild. You never know what you’re going to ...

The mollusc deposits layers of aragonite and conchiolin, which together form nacre, also know as mother-of-pearl. In the wild, pearl formation is rare so most pearls sold these days are from ...