Prized find: A worker harvesting pearls, each containing an RFID chip, on a fishing raft culturing Akoya pearl oysters in the rural Sai Kung region of Hong Kong. — AFP
Hong Kong: On a raft floating off Hong Kong’s rural eastern coastline, former investment banker turned scientist Yan Wa-tat patiently scrapes barnacles off some 2,000 oysters – a tiresome but crucial part of his mission to bring back pearl farming.
“The species was once abundant in Hong Kong,” the 58-year-old lamented.
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