PRODUCTION
Number of people working in the sector: 597
Number of licenses for Tahitian cultured pearl farmers: 440 (7 pending)
Number of licenses for pearl-bearing oyster farmers: 403 (27 pending)
Total area in cultivation: ~8.319 hectares
Number of islands in cultivation: 27
Division by archipelago: 2% in the Windward Islands, the rest in the Tuamotu-Gambier Islands.
Division by size of operation: 80% family – 17% medium-sized – 3% large.
COMMERCIALIZATION
Number of trader’s licenses: 25
Total of unset cultured pearls exported in 2010: 10.2 million pearls i.e. 16.7 tons.
Total value in 2010: 8 millards FCFP
Average price per gram: 478 FCFP/g
Number of free-lance enterprises: 8
The Pearl Farming Service