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For many just a tasty delicacy, the oyster may actually be the hero the world needs to fight environmental degradation -- and volunteers like Kimberly Price are battling to repopulate the surprisingly powerful species. The 53-year-old is an "oyster gardener" who fosters thousands of the mollusks at her waterside home until they are old enough to be planted in the Chesapeake Bay near the US capital Washington, where they clean the water and can even offset climate change.
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00:00Do you want to do this story?
00:12Oh, I saw this.
00:14Hang on.
00:30Next year, the next year after that.
00:41Oh, look, I made you turn red.
00:43We had 8.4 shells.
00:45Or 8.4 oysters on each shell.
00:49There you go.
00:51Why did I lose 4,000?
00:54I know, and I'm like, what's happening?
00:57I assume that everyone has 4 cages because that's when people started.
00:59And then I forgot that you guys...
01:02Yes.
01:03Yes.
01:18And we need to be able to have the water clean for us to enjoy it as well,
01:23to boat in it and swim in it.
01:26So the only one that's cleaning it are the oysters.
01:29And we've sort of decimated their...
01:31Not sort of.
01:32We decimated their population over the years.
01:35And with all of the runoff and all of the building that's gone on,
01:41that we've just polluted the water enough and depleted their supply
01:45that I was happy to try and do this to promote the population of oysters.
01:50Oh, I know, yeah.
01:51They're happy.
01:52That's for her.
01:53Yeah.
01:54Oh.
01:55See you with a little one.
01:56Oh, I know, yeah.
01:57They're happy.
01:58That's for her.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Oh.
02:01See you next time.
02:02See you next time.
02:03Bye.
02:04Bye.
02:05Bye.
02:06T Tour.
02:07T Tour.
02:08T Tour.
02:17T Tour.
02:18T Tour.
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