When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method in Japan and China for over 1,300 years. Commercially popular fishing methods put the ...

OZU, Ehime Prefecture—The traditional cormorant fishing season started on the Hijikawa river here on June 1, entertaining spectators who gathered to watch the trained seabirds catch fish in the night.

In Japan, the Nagara river is known for cormorant fishing. This is a 1,300-year-old tradition, where fishing masters ( uscho) use Japanese cormorants to catch fish ( ayu). The fishing masters have ...

The muddy waters of the Li River churn in the erratic wind that blows in. The weather is unusually inclement for a summer evening. Dark clouds hover above the pointed ridges of the Karst mountains to ...

Europe's great cormorant has recovered from near-extinction to overabundance in half a century, stoking a long-running debate ...

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Cormorant fishing on China's Li River is all but dying out. Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey ...

Under the light of the moon, with sparkling fire swinging from the edge of their boats lighting their way, Gifu City's fishermen are ready to start their day. Instead of using poles, rods, and lures, ...