Using the extensive knowledge accumulated over twenty years diving for paua, Roger Beattie and his team at Eyris Blue Pearls have pioneered ways to farm paua.
These paua are allowed to develop as naturally as possible in their own ocean environment. With the ebb and flow of the tides; through calm and stormy weather; fed only on their natural diet of nutrient rich seaweed.
Paua are voracious eaters, they eat up to 50% of their body weight per week. Without continued access to high quality natural seaweed, a blue pearl farming operation would not be viable.
Eyris Blue Pearls have operated five sea-based blue pearl farms in the waters around New Zealand.
These geographically isolated farms in the Chatham Islands, the Marlborough Sounds, Banks Peninsula and Wellington Harbour harvest healthy paua from the rocky coastline and raise them in specially designed pearl barrels suspended beneath the surface.
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