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I think seawater or saltwater is often used instead of Akoya because of a bias against Akoya pearls which has been obvious to me for sometime now.
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This biased against Akoya pearls doesn't really exist except on this forum, among natural pearl collectors and other pearl conessieurs - most retailers, wholesalers and farmers have a biased towards Akoya pearls, even the thin nacre ones.