Oyster reefs covered over 220,000 acres along the coastline.

牡蛎礁沿着海岸线覆盖了22万英亩。

But one oyster reef has cut coastal erosion there in half over five years.

但这道牡蛎壳礁已在五年多内使海岸侵蚀减半。

Oyster reefs can break up waves by catching the brunt of the force.

牡蛎礁可以通过截住这股力量的冲击来使海浪分流。

And over generations, all of these oysters reproducing, it builds up the oyster reef.

几代之后，所有这些牡蛎持续繁殖，就形成了牡蛎礁。

They actually, oyster reefs create habitat for fish to spawn and to grow and for protection.

实际上，牡蛎礁为鱼的产卵、生长和保护创造了栖息地。

Various organizations around the world are working to restore oyster reefs.

世界各地的许多组织都在努力恢复牡蛎礁。

Oyster reefs provide much the same function as coral reefs.

牡蛎礁提供了与珊瑚礁相同的功能。

Experts estimate we've lost 85% of the world's oyster reefs in the last 200 years.

专家估计，在过去200年里，我们已经失去了世界上85%的牡蛎礁。

On its own, an oyster reef won't " stop" a hurricane-level storm surge, but it could definitely limit the damage.

牡蛎礁本身无法“阻止”飓风级别的风暴潮，但它绝对可以限制其破坏力。

Unlike man-made breakwaters that will need to be rebuilt over time, oyster reefs just keep growing upward.

与人工防波堤不同，人工防波堤需要时间来重建，而牡蛎礁会不断向上生长。

When you had a complex 3 dimensional shoreline that is both oyster reefs and salt marsh and all that working together.

当你有一个复杂的三维海岸线，牡蛎礁和盐沼以及所有这些共同工作。

Stephanie Westby has been helping to restore oyster reefs in the US's Chesapeake Bay for over 10 years.

斯蒂芬妮·韦斯特比10多年来一直在帮助恢复美国切萨皮克湾的牡蛎礁。

A few kilometers south, a group called ReClam the Bay is building an oyster reef to protect the shoreline of Mordecai Island.

向南几公里处，一个名为ReClam the Bay的组织正在建造一个牡蛎礁，以保护末底改岛的海岸线。

Let's hear now from conservationists who are hoping to be successful in restoring Hong Kong's famous oyster reefs in CNN's Call to Earth.

下面，让我们通过 CNN 的《呼唤地球》节目，一起来了解自然资源保护者打算如何成功恢复香港著名的牡蛎礁。

For example, in 2008 New York Harbor School started the Billion Oyster Project, a resiliency plan that restores oyster reefs in New York Harbor.

例如，2008年纽约港学校启动了十亿牡蛎项目，这是一项恢复纽约港牡蛎群礁的复原计划。

If you have an oyster reef that's " intertidal" — that sticks up at low tide — then it can perform some of that wave energy protection function.

如果在“潮间带”有一个牡蛎礁——在低潮期时它会竖起突出——那么它就可以发挥一些波浪能量保护功能。

New York is more vulnerable to storms. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's why since 2014 the non-profit Billion Oyster Project has been working to restore the city's oyster reefs.

纽约更容易受到风暴的侵袭。女被访者: 这就是为什么自2014年以来，非营利性的亿牡蛎项目一直致力于恢复该市的牡蛎礁。

Oyster reefs, of course, have the remarkable ability to adapt for sea level rise so they can continue to grow up if the water level goes up.

当然，牡蛎礁具有非凡的适应海平面上升的能力，因此它们可以在水位上升时继续生长。