Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 June 1947Vol. XVII, No. 11

Oyster Culture In Fiji

p. 30 · Read in the full issue

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OYSTERS are expected to become a thriving sea food in Fiji. In 1941 the Veterinary and Fisheries Division of the Fijian Department of Agriculture imported oysters and established them in a mangrove swamp in Suva Bay. They have now spread along 150 yards of water line and young oysters are growing healthily. As soon as conditions are suitable it is hoped to distribute the beds

over a wider area by means of culture oysters from those already raised in Suva Bay.

M. Fourcade, formerly Admiral d’Argen lieu’s chief secretary, then French official at Vila, New Hebrides, and more recently the New Caledonian Governor’s chief secretary, left for France recently on the “Sagittaire”. M. de Saint Esteban is temporarily filling the chief secretary ship.

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