| Doug, and other interested folk...I visited said dealer\breeder today. I found two articles about them on the wall. One was printed in the Oregonian. Your Virginia education good enough to figure it out? POP is the place. Now about my dyslexia...the article was not dated, but did precede the 1983 article in the hometown paper - the News Register. Ray is older than glacial till, and his sister-in-law says he has been choreographing the breeding of koi (just couldn't bring myself to say 'breeding koi') for over 20 years. Anyway you do the math, I was errant in my statement about how long they have been operating as Pearls Of Paradise.
Now, about the pond salinity...I have had US importers reply to me that those ponds are in fact, in some cases, loaded with salt. HA HA! (Or are they speculating too?!). One breeder in Japan (Daisuke Maeda at the Momotaro-koi farm) replied that they too, on occasion, hold their salt at .6%.
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