" Everything at Looe Key is lost," she told him, some 5,400 pieces of elkhorn and staghorn coral.

“卢礁岛的所有珊瑚都没了。”她告诉老板，共有大约5400块麋角珊瑚和鹿角珊瑚。

She was diving for samples off the Florida Keys, and the thicket of elkhorn coral below looked brown, not the stark white that would indicate bleaching from the record-breaking sea temperatures in the area.

她正在佛罗里达礁岛群潜水采集样本，下面的一丛麋角珊瑚看起来是棕色而非惨白的颜色，白色表明该地区破纪录的海洋温度导致了珊瑚白化。

Ken Nedimyer, for example, stepped away from a successful business as a tropical fish wholesaler some 20 years ago to throw himself into growing staghorn and elkhorn coral in offshore nurseries and planting them on Florida's reef.

例如，肯·尼迪迈尔20年前放弃了他非常成功的热带鱼批发生意，转而投身于近海复育场的麋角珊瑚和鹿角珊瑚的养育工作，并将珊瑚种植在佛罗里达州的珊瑚礁上。