{"id":1566,"date":"2018-10-23T18:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2018-10-23T18:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:57:49","slug":"baby-giant-clams-at-civa-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/world-of-pearls\/baby-giant-clams-at-civa-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby giant clams at Civa Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pearl farmers at Civa on the lovely island of Fiji are about to make a pearl harvest but took a few seconds to allow me to share these photos of the baby giant clams which they are also raising with you all.<\/p>\n

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Baby giant clams now being raised in Fiji<\/p><\/div>\n

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The partnership between Civa (Fiji) Pearls Limited and the Douglas Fam\u00adily of Matagi Island have given their first al\u00adlotment of giant clams from their hatchery to the Vanua Trust of Laucala.<\/p>\n

A project that started in 2016 is now pro\u00adducing around 25,000 giant clams juveniles every three months destined for the export market.<\/p>\n

The hatchery is producing four species of clams (Tridacna Maxima, Tridacna Noae, Tridacna Squamosa and Tridacna Derasa).<\/p>\n

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the baby clams are between 5cm and 8cm<\/p><\/div>\n

A portion of the production is destined to reef rehabilitation projects and for the de\u00advelopment of the resource through the tra\u00additional fishing rights owners.<\/p>\n

The hatchery is situated in Qamea Island and the coastal communities of Qamea and Naqelelevu will benefit from this long-term project by receiving yearly allotments of clams for their development.<\/p>\n

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The giant clam hatchery. Double redundant fresh water system to ensure the clams are as happy as..well…clams<\/p><\/div>\n

Civa (Fiji) Pearls Ltd owner Claude Michel Prevost said they are happy to follow up on their promises to deliver to the local coastal communities their share of this commodity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy to see this happening. We think that it is important for companies who benefit from the development of this resource to include the traditional custodi\u00adans in the development of this resource.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe development of aquaculture is in its infancy with few players. The Ministry of Fisheries is sending signals that it wants to develop aquaculture and this is great news.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t they pretty?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Civa (Fiji) Pearls Limited was founded in 2006 by two Canadian expats Claude Michel Prevost and Danielle Belanger.<\/p>\n

Lured by the extraordinary colours al\u00adready in production in Fiji, Claude and Danielle began their own pearl production in 2007 with a subsequent first harvest in 2010.<\/p>\n

Most of this production is currently ex\u00adported to Europe, with a small amount retained and available from partnering re\u00adsorts here in Fiji.<\/p>\n

The pearl farm is situated on the wind\u00adward side of Taveuni.<\/p>\n

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Civa pearls – fiji pearls are distinctive<\/p><\/div>\n

Should we try to stock some?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pearl farmers at Civa on the lovely island of Fiji are about to make a pearl harvest but took a few seconds to allow me to share these photos of the baby giant clams which they are also raising with you all. The partnership between Civa (Fiji) Pearls Limited and the Douglas Fam\u00adily of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pearlescence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}