The present study investigates through an integrated survey, for the first time in Greek shellfish market, marketing distribution towards a new edible product that of non-indigenous pearl oyster Pinctada imbricata radiata. survey conducted personal interviews on sector entrepreneurs/staff supply (i.e., producers, wholesalers, fishmongers, owners restaurants). Internet-based quantitative researc...

By measuring the fluorescence spectra of pearls from various species of mother oysters, a distinction has already become possible as to whether the pearls are from Pinctada fucata, Pinctada maxima, Pteria penguin or Pinctada margaritifera. In this study, the fluorescence of pearls from freshwater bivalves was measured. The results have made it possible to distinguish freshwater pearls from the ...

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In the summer of 2021, marine fouling organisms associated with pearl oyster Pinctada radiata in natural habitat Miyami area, Alexandria city, were surveyed, where samples collected by scuba diving. Eighteen shells variable sizes to investigate community’s biodiversity that settled on each shell. A total 1674 representing 106 taxa identified, weighing a cumulative wet weight 147.98 g. The commu...