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Thoothukudi also known as Tuticorin, is a city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The city is also known as "Pearl City". It is a sea port city which serves southern Tamil Nadu, including the inland cities of Coimbatore, Madurai and Tirunelveli. It is one of the oldest cities in India with the history dating back to the 6th century BCE. Tuticorin was famous for its pearl culture and so it is also been called as "Pearl City", "Muthu Nagar" in Tamil.
The district of Thoothukudi is situated in the extreme south-eastern corner of Tamil Nadu state. It is bounded on the north by the districts of Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram, on the east and south-east by Gulf of Mannar and on the west and south-west by the district of Tirunelveli. Total area of this district is 4621 sq. kms. and the administrative headquarters is an Urban agglomeration and also one of the taluk headquarters within the district.
India is endowed with a Pearl oyster resource which has been exploited for the natural pearls from time immemorial and in the historical past pearl have been one of the precious objects along with spices. "Thoothukudi" and Jam Nagar" are the well known haunts of this resource and pearl fisheries in the Gulf of Mannar and Gulf of Kutch respectively. The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) started an experimental project in pearl culture in 1972 at Thoothukudi with a field laboratory at Veppalodai.
The pearl oysters are always found attached to some hard substratum such as rocks, dead coral outcrops or sand grit covered with marine organisms. The are of occurrence of pearl oysters are known as pearl banks or "Parrs". This central division is the most productive one in view of the fact the out of the 40 fisheries that had taken place between 1663 and 1961, 39 fisheries had been in the paars located in this division
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