No, it is not necessary to kill the oysters. In freshwater pearl farming approx 32 pearls can be obtained at a time and then the mollusk is re-nucleated. Saltwater pearls can produce one pearl at a time and during a life span it can give 4-5 pearls. After that most of the time it is left in the water to live at its own.
Pearls do come from pearl oysters or other freshwater mollusks. Natural pearls can occur randomly. Pearls that are high quality are highly valued as jewelry.
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Oysters, but very very rarely they are found in clams.
Bivalve crustaceans such as oysters have pearls.
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No, clams never have pearls in them no matter where they are found .Oysters are the ones that have peals but it's a very rare to find one "the pearls that is not the oysters" .That's why there so expensive!
Pearls don't come from coral, they come from oysters.
Oysters are not the only type of mollusk that can produce pearls. Clams and mussels can also produce pearls, but that is a much rarer occurrence. Most pearls are produced by oysters in both freshwater and saltwater environments.
Oysters. Actually, clams and certain other molluscs can also produce pearls, but it's only oyster pearls that are of gem quality.
rarely, oysters will contain them. a fisherman can catch several oysters at a time.