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 | | These involved different petitions that would in their turn reveal the failure by foreign divers to respect fishing regulations at a time when the Polynesians themselves were forbidden from diving and exploiting their own lagoons, thus depriving entire families of their only source of revenue and their property rights. |
 | | Following some unfortunate misunderstandings as to the approvals given to foreign companies to exploit their lagoons using diving equipment, a lively opposition to French administration was created in the Tuamotu in 1928, hardened at the instigation of professional agitators from Tahiti in the form of Tomite Patoi or resistance groups. |
 | | This mollusk was totally unknown in Polynesian waters before 1957, the year of its introduction, first to Tahiti, then practically to all the other islands of the Society group, the Tuamotu and the Australs. |
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