New Akoya Pearl Farm in Australia

Broken Bay, just north of Sydney, has a commercial history farming rock oysters, spanning more than a century.

But now four Sydney rock oyster growers at Broken Bay are bringing their collective farming experience to a new commercial pearl operation, headed by Ian Crisp.

"I don't think we as a group would have been able to achieve this if we hadn't had our oyster farming experience," Mr Crisp said.

Broken Bay Pearls general manager Peter Clift says farming Akoya pearls is much the same as growing Sydney rock oysters.

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