Éditeur(s) : Elsevier Science Bv
Résumé : In bivalve aquaculture, dominant fouling organisms are filter feeders which can compete for food with reared bivalves, sometimes causing mortality or reducing their growth rate. This study investigated the effect of biofouling on the farmed pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera in two lagoons of French Polynesia. Survival, growth and reproduction of 2 year-old pearl oysters were monitored with regular sampling schedules, from the initial stage of colonization up to 20 months of biofouling accumulation. Control groups of pearl oysters were kept free of biofouling as is the current practice in pearl farms. After more than a year of monitoring, no significant difference was recorded in shell growth rate between pearl oysters reared with epibionts and the control group of pearl oysters, at both sites. Mean annual shell growth rate (height) was 30.5 ± 9.2 mm in Tahiti and 24.8 ± 7.7 mm in Mangareva. Neither the survival nor the reproduction indices were negatively affected by biofouling. In Mangareva, where biofouling development was quantified during 1 year, the rate of colonization appeared to be high during the first 3 months before slowing down. These results raise questions about the necessity of removing biofouling at this stage of pearl oyster production (i.e. before grafting).
Aquaculture (0044-8486) (Elsevier Science Bv), 2014-10 , Vol. 434 , P. 18-26

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00201/31188/29587.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2014.07.012
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00201/31188/

Éditeur(s) : Research Media Ltd
Résumé : Pearl farming is essential to the economy of French Polynesia, generating thousands of jobs for the islands. What are the main concerns for the current state of pearl farming in the region ?
International innovation : disseminating science, research and technology (2054-6254) (Research Media Ltd), 2014 , N. 125 , P. 21-23

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00188/29925/28393.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00188/29925/

Éditeur(s) : Actes de colloques Ifremer, Tahiti, French Polynesia, 20 Feb - 4 Mar 1989, n°9, chap. 7, pp.57-66
Résumé : The first attempt to obtain artificial pearls from the black-lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera in French Polynesia dates back to 1963. The pearl oyster culture has grown quickly especially since the eighties. This industry is now the first exportation in value of French Polynesia. 19 atolls of the Tuamotus island have at this time one or more farms and this activity has more and more attractiveness. The rise of this industry has consequently a lot of socio-ecomic repercussions on these atolls. However, as a young industry, the technics and the development are not always controlled and a lot of problems appeared these last years.

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1989/acte-1494.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1494/

Résumé : Tahiti’s pearl farming industry plays a major socio-economic role in French Polynesia. In an increasingly competitive market where the production of high quality pearls becomes essential, research can help secure and ensure sustainable production. In that context, Ifremer, in close collaboration with the “direction des resources marines” (French Polynesian government agency) has developed research projects on the “sustainable development of pearl farming”. This program is organized along 3 axes: (1) understanding the animal physiology and initiating a genetically selective breeding program of donor oysters; (2) understanding pearl oyster larvae dispersal and recruitment; (3) understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying biomineralization processes during shell and pearl formation. It is in this frame that we have developed a highthroughput Expressed Sequence Tags pyrosequencing program on the calcifying mantle, combined with proteomic analyses of the shell and pearl. We analyzed 276738 EST sequences, leading to the constitution of a P. margaritifera mantle transcripts catalogue of 82 sequences potentially involved in biomineralization. Our results provided direct evidence that our ESTs data set covers a large number of the matrix proteins of P. margaritifera. In addition, our proteomic analysis enabled us to retrieve, in silico, all the sequences from P. margaritifera involved in the biomineralization process already published on databases. Integration of these two methods allowed, for the first time, the global composition of calcifying tissue and calcified structures to be examined in tandem.
Recent Advances in Pearl Research—Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pearl Research 2011.Edited by Shugo Watabe, Kaoru Maeyama and Hiromichi Nagasawa. 2013. ISBN : 978-4-88704-158-5. pp.184-194

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00167/27840/26049.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00167/27840/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier Masson
Résumé : International audience
The present study tested different sounds that could disturb eagle rays (Aetobatus ocellatus) during their foraging activities at Moorea, French Polynesia. Results showed that artificial white sound and single-frequency tones (40 Hz, 600 Hz or 1 kHz) did not have an effect on rays (at least 90% of rays continued to forage over sand), while playbacks of boat motor sound significantly disturbed rays during foraging activity (60% exhibited an escape behaviour). Overall, our study highlighted the negative effect of boat noises on the foraging activity of eagle rays. These noises produced by boat traffic could, however, have some positive effects for marine aquaculture if they could be used as a deterrent to repel the eagle rays, main predators of the pearl oysters.
Notre étude teste différents types de sons qui pourraient perturber les raies-aigles (Aetobatus ocellatus) pendant leur prise de nourriture dans le lagon de Moorea, en Polynésie française. Les résultats montrent que le bruit artificiel blanc ou des fréquences uniques (40 Hz, 600 Hz ou 1 kHz) n’ont aucun effet sur les raies (au moins 90 % des raies continuent de se nourrir dans le sable), tandis que l’enregistrement d’un moteur de bateau les perturbe significativement dans cette activité (60 % des individus ont un comportement de fuite). Notre étude met ainsi en évidence l’effet négatif des bruits anthropogéniques sur les activités de nourrissage des raies-aigles. Ces bruits produits par les bateaux pourraient néanmoins avoir un effet positif pour l’aquaculture marine s’ils pouvaient être utilisés comme répulsifs des raies, principaux prédateurs de l’huître perlière.
ISSN: 1631-0691

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hal-01297683
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01297683
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01297683/document
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01297683/file/1-s2.0-S1631069116000020-main.pdf
DOI : 10.1016/j.crvi.2016.01.001

Éditeur(s) : 1st International Biennal Conference on Warm Water Aquaculture - Crustacea 02/9-11/83 Brigham Young University. Hawai
Résumé : Until recently, mollusc production in French Polynesia was only based upon fishing, for local consumption of edible bivalves mainly the oyster Saccostrea cucullata and for the exportation of pearl-oyster shells. As a consequence of parasitism problems on local oysters, a mollusc program was initiated by developping hatchery technics on introduced species of edible bivalves, Saccostrea echinata and Perna viridis, and cultivation methods in specialyy fitted up areas. Concerning pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera the traditional shell production activity was recently reorganized to produce black culture pearls, inducing an increased demand of young implantable pearl-oysters. Hatchery spat production proved to be unsuccessful, and technics of collection and cultivation in lagoons were set up to supply the pearl oyster farming industry, and face the depletion natural stock. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR]

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1983/acte-4449.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/4449/

Résumé : Introduction: To develop its 2005-2009 strategic plan, IFREMER made two prospective analysis studies in 2003: a thematic prospective analysis and a sectorial prospective analysis. The "aquafarming" sectorial prospective analysis, based primarily on an IFREMER idea, particularly brought to light the difference in nature of problems posed by the future evolution of shellfish farming, fish farming and other stockbreeding (pearl farming and shrimp farming). In addition, the prospective analyses made on an international scale by the FAO (2002, 2004) and the IFPRI (2003) emphasise that the development of aqua farming is the required condition for satisfying world demand of consumer aquatic products, given the foreseeable weak growth, indeed, the stagnation of caught-fish production. Considering the weak development of sea fish farming in France, a country with a long tradition of shellfish farming, it has seemed necessary to deepen the thinking about the prospective analysis devoted to sea fish farming by widening it to include all players interested in this production sector. The goal is to ensure that the strategic plan's objectives, stated in the 2005-2008 four-year contract, define a strategy fully compliant with one of IFREMER's three missions in particular: Contribute to the economic development of the maritime world.
Introduction : Pour élaborer son plan stratégique 2005-2009, l'Ifremer a réalisé en 2003 deux exercices de prospective : une prospective thématique, et une prospective sectorielle. La prospective sectorielle « aquaculture », fondée essentiellement sur une réflexion Ifremer, a mis notamment en évidence la différence de nature des problèmes posés par les évolutions futures de la conchyliculture, de la pisciculture et des autres élevages (perliculture et crevetticulture). Par ailleurs, les prospectives réalisées à l'échelle internationale par la FAO (2002, 2004) et l'IFPRI (2003) soulignent que le développement de l'aquaculture est la condition nécessaire de satisfaction de la demande mondiale d'approvisionnement en produits aquatiques de consommation, compte tenu de la prévisible faible croissance, voire stagnation, de la production des pêches de capture. Considérant le faible développement de la pisciculture marine en France, pays de longue tradition conchylicole, il est apparu nécessaire d'approfondir la réflexion prospective consacrée à la pisciculture marine, en l'élargissant à tous les acteurs concernés par ce secteur de production. Le but est de s'assurer que les objectifs du plan stratégique, déclinés dans le contrat quadriennal 2005-2008, définissent une stratégie pleinement conforme à l'une des trois missions de l'Ifremer : contribuer au développement économique du monde maritime.

Droits : 2006 Ifremer
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/rapport-1506.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1506/

Éditeur(s) : FAO, Rome
Résumé : French Polynesia is currently the world's largest producer of cultured black pearls with exports worth U5$150 millions annually. The activity has become of prime socioeconomic importance the archipelagos with strong support and control of the government. In the mid-1980s, mass mortality of the black-lipped pearl oyster, Pinctada margarltlfera, has occurred in several atolls and challenged the development of pearl farming activity. Consequent studies and surveys have described several pathological conditions. None of those is considered to pose significant threat to the industry. However, they are monitored by a surveillance program in order to prevent and control emerging diseases. The government of French Polynesia has developed efforts to maintain high quality of the pearls and sustain demand of the markets. This paper reviews a successful model of development based on proactive policy and cooperation among stakeholders.
In : M. G. Bondad-Reantaso, S. E. McGladdery & F. C. Berthe. Pearl oyster health managment : a manual FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. N° 503, Rome, FAO : 120 p. (FAO, Rome), 2007 , Vol. 503 , P. 103-109

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-3703.PDF
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3703/

Résumé : The present report synthesizes the results of the works led in collaboration between the IFREMER, the Hydrographic and Oceanographic service of the French Navy (Oceanographic Mission of the Pacific) and the Departments of the Sea and Fish farming and of the Management and Town planning of the Territory of the French Polynesia. After a reminder of the problems regarding morphological and hydrographic mapping of low islands (atolls) of the Pacific in particular in French Polynesia, a paragraph draws up the assets of the aerial and spatial images as well as the computer-assisted digital mapping. A chapter of the report is then dedicated to the data, to the digital processing methodologies and to the display of the results. The following one develops the applications in particular relative to 4 types of by-products of the images and the (processing : i) the spacemap said "Pacific standard ", ii) said spacemap "maritime leases", iii) the geographical database of the information system SIGMA POE RAVA dedicated to the management of the pearl oyster culture and iiii) the production of bathymetric meshed models. A conclusion approaches the perspectives and the potential developments.
Le présent rapport synthétise les résultats des travaux menés en collaboration entre l'IFREMER, le Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (Mission Océanographique du Pacifique) et les Services de la Mer et de l'Aquaculture et de l'Aménagement et de l'Urbanisme du Territoire de la Polynésie française. Après un rappel de la problématique posée en matière de cartographie morphologique et hydrographique des iles basses (atolls) du Pacifique et notamment de Polynésie française, un paragraphe dresse les atouts de l’image aérienne et spatiale ainsi que de la cartographie numérique assistée par ordinateur. Un chapitre du rapport est consacré aux données, aux méthodologies de traitement et à la présentation des résultats. Le suivant développe les applications notamment relatives à 4 types de produits dérivés des images et des traitements : i) la spatiocarte dite «à norme Pacifique», ii) les spatiocartes dites «concessions maritimes», iii) la base géographique du système d’information SIGMA Poe Rava dédié à la gestion de la perliculture et iiii) la production de modèles bathymétriques maillés».Une conclusion aborde les perspectives et développements potentiels

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00195/30644/29099.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00195/30644/