{"id":121,"date":"2009-06-17T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mardonjewelers.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T18:44:53","slug":"is-japan-losing-its-pearl-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/gemstones\/is-japan-losing-its-pearl-farms","title":{"rendered":"Is Japan Losing its Pearl Farms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_123\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/files\/2009\/06\/akoyastrand.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/files\/2009\/06\/akoyastrand-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Obama, just for you!\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/files\/2009\/06\/akoyastrand-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/files\/2009\/06\/akoyastrand-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/files\/2009\/06\/akoyastrand.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Akoya Pearl Necklace<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While reviewing material for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mardonjewelers.com\/blog\/gem-industry-news\/the-pearl-farms-of-japan-going-going-g\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a recent blog<\/a> on the plight of the Japanese akoya pearl farmers, I was struck by one index card from a presentation we made at the 50th Anniversay AGS Conclave in New Orleans in 1984. I worked in the pearl business with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Latendresse\" target=\"_blank\">John Latendresse<\/a> in the early 1980&#8217;s, and even then, the handwriting was on the wall&#8211; the Japanese akoya cultured pearl industry was in trouble, and its competitors were gathering strength.<\/p>\n<p>On the card was a discussion of some of the problems facing the Japanese industry including environmental degradation, diseases and genetically weak pearl oysters, and diminishing skilled labor resources. At that time, we predicted a decline for the Akoya industry, moderate growth for the South Sea farms, and a great future for the Chinese pearl farmers, both freshwater and saltwater.\u00a0 Time has shown this prediction to be accurate. Visit our blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mardonjewelers.com\/blog\/gem-industry-news\/the-pearl-farms-of-japan-going-going-g\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pearl Farms of Japan, Going, Going, G&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reviewing material for a recent blog on the plight of the Japanese akoya pearl farmers, I was struck by one index card from a presentation we made at the 50th Anniversay AGS Conclave in New Orleans in 1984. I worked in the pearl business with John Latendresse in the early 1980&#8217;s, and even then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[16,150,194,195,234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mardonjewelers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}