By 2015, Georgia had added about 200 retired chicken-transport cages to an offshore reef; the steel structures became fish habitat

A few miles offshore Georgia, past the murky green water barrier, is a section of sea bottom constructed from discarded steel crib frames used to transport live chickens to slaughterhouses. It's literal poultry gear, encrusted with barnacles and covered in black sea bass. This is among one of the more under-the-radar conservation hacks the U.S. has up its sleeve.