Acknowledgements
The 9th European Development Fund (grant POF/001/002N1 to
S.A. and L.C.) through the French Polynesia Service de la Perliculture,
supported all the studies presented in this special issue on
Ahe atoll and pearl oyster aquaculture. We warmly acknowledge
the 26 reviewers who helped for this special issue, for their time
and suggestions for improvement. We are grateful to Charles
Sheppard, Editor-in-Chief, for welcoming this special issue in Marine
Pollution Bulletin. We also appreciated the help from Becky
Rives-Roberts and Sara Bebbington at Elsevier during the realization
of this volume. Pascal Correia provided the Fig. 3, using the latest
2012 data on concessions available at Direction of Marine
Resources of French Polynesia.