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Article: Meeting the World's Demand for Giant Clams
- Article from:
- Micronesian Investment Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 1990
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The economic future of the Micronesia islands is tied largely to the development of ocean industries: tourism, marine recreation, marine shipping, commercial fisheries, and marine farming or "mariculture." In this article, MIQ investigates an exciting example of a successful marine farming enterprise--the Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center (MMDC) on Palau.
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