The artificial fish-reef is a kind of means changing ecological environment, increasing and breeding aquatic resources near sea.

人工鱼礁是改变近海生态环境和增养殖水产资源的一种手段。

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Princessfish are a species of coral-reef fish that are captured alive by divers who first stun the individual fish by squirting a certain poison at them.

公主鱼是一种珊瑚礁鱼，潜水员会先将某种毒药喷到鱼身上，使其昏迷，然后将其活捉。

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A single lionfish can reduce recruitment of other fish on a reef by a staggering 85 percent, and these apex predators are threatening both commercial fishing and tourism.

一条狮子鱼就能令人难以置信地在一处暗礁减少85%其它鱼类的补充，而这些顶级食肉动物正威胁着商业性捕鱼和旅游业。

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He reckons that, unlike over-exploited oceanic fisheries, which can rebound if the boats go away, reef-fish populations pushed to the brink of extinction may never recover.

ECONOMIST: What price coral?

Coral-reef fish tend to grow slowly, take many years to reach reproductive age, and then spawn in only a few localised sites.

ECONOMIST: What price coral?

We sat up and dropped our lures into the water, quickly finding out that keeping one's surfboard steady in a 10-foot swell while trying to fish a reef makes for a clumsy operation.

FORBES: Paradise Lost