pearl fishery

This has always been the case, even in the prosperous days of the pearl fishery.

The state had a pearl fishery and much of its wealth came from this.

In the first three years the government received £396,000 from pearl fisheries.

The main economic activities were agriculture, weaving, pearl fishery, manufacturing and construction.

Following his slaving activities, Caballero took over some pearl fisheries.

Notable among them are the customs department, militia and the state monopoly of pearl fisheries.

This was largely due to the wealth of the country, famous in the earliest times as now for its pearl fisheries.

Building construction, pearl fishery and painting are other activities that have been supported by findings from these excavations.

He improved the defense of the island and helped develop commerce and the pearl fisheries.

Pliny the Elder (23-79) praised the pearl fishery of the gulf as most productive in the world.

The population of Margarita had been reduced by the pirate raids, and the pearl fishery was abandoned.

The 1920s and 30s saw the collapse of the pearl fishery and with it Kuwait's economy.

Pearl fisheries were harvested by the Paravas and was a lucrative profession.

"Sir," said Conseil, "would you give us some details of the pearl fishery?"

The only caste in pearl fishery coast to use conch are kadaiyars.

Thoothukudi is traditionally known for pearl fishery and shipbuilding.

The pearl fisheries of the archipelago have been famous since Roman times and still produce a substantial number of pearls.

Tuticorin has been a centre for maritime trade and pearl fishery for more than a century.

He also wrote about the pearl fisheries, horse trade, Sati and devadasis.

They also controlled the lucrative pearl fishery subjugating the Paravas for that purpose.

Armed with knives, like the Indians in the pearl fisheries, was it not practicable to attack the monsters in their own element?

The accounts of Ceylon pearl fisheries are so common in every child's book that I do not attempt to describe the system in detail.

The Paravar elite continued their traditional role, organising this labour as they had done for the pearl fisheries.

It was probably as a result of Arab contacts that pearl fisheries were opened up on the coast of East Africa.

Pearl fishery, known as ghaus, suffered decline after the advent of Japanese pearl farming.