Kelly Smith has installed crab traps filled with oyster shells to create an inviting home for area oysters at Amelia River in Fernandina Beach. The oysters attach themselves to the traps and fuse together to create a living shoreline that helps reduce erosion.

“You’ve got to put the structures at the right elevation, otherwise they get flooded too much or they don’t get flooded, so working at low tide allowed us to pick the best location,” Smith said. “Then what happens is we kind of hope, ‘If we build it, they will come.’”

• Kelly Smith