Bêche-de-mer Definition

Bêche-de-mer Sentence Examples

• It is visited by the ocean steamers of several lines, and is the centre of a very extensive beche-de-mer and pearl fishery.

• European industries include gold mining, in which 500 miners, besides natives, are engaged (chiefly in the Louisiade Archipelago), and the beche de mer and pearl-shell fisheries, which were formerly more productive than at present.

• It has an excellent harbour, Port Kennedy, and is a port of call for mail steamers and the centre of the beche-de-mer and pearl fisheries of the Torres Strait.

• Minor exports are cocoa, coco-de-mer and beche-de-mer.