Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing technique in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish in rivers. Historically, cormorant fishing has taken place in China and Japan, [1] as well as Greece, North Macedonia, and briefly, England and France.

2020年10月9日 · Most of these fishermen tie a snare around the bird’s long throat. This feature prevents the cormorant from swallowing a large catch, but allows it to eat the smaller fish. The large catch is either spat up by the bird for the fisherman, or simply held in the beak. A fisherman trains his cormorant to catch fish. (imphilip /Adobe Stock)

2021年7月14日 · By the twentieth century cormorant fishing was booming in many of the places we associate with it today. Archive footage from 1931 shows scores of fishermen near Guilin, their cormorants churning the tranquil waters of the Li river. Yet despite this recent heyday, cormorant fishing is now a dying art.

2023年6月23日 · With sleek black feathers, webbed feet, sharp beaks, and longs neck that gracefully emerges from the water like a serpent, cormorants are skilled divers and expert fishers. These birds can plunge deep into the depths, using their powerful wings to propel themselves underwater in search of fish.

2021年4月4日 · The typical cormorant fishing procedure on the Li River, both at Guilin and at Yangshuo, is for the fishermen to form a circle (or an ellipse) with their boats and then to fish the encirclement. Daytime fishermen might beat the water with their oars as a way to attract fish.

Ukai is a traditional fishing method which uses trained cormorants to catch river fish such as sweetfish (ayu). This type of fishing has been around for over 1300 years, most prominently along the Nagaragawa River in Gifu City, where the master fishermen have official patronage from …

2024年4月18日 · In cormorant fishing that dates back 1,300 years, master fishermen called "usho" in long wooden boats lead out a dozen or so cormorants tethered with ropes. The birds swim alongside and dive underwater to capture fish, …

Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing technique which dates back a thousand years in Southern China. The fishermen would light a torch to take out on the water to attract the fish, and their trained cormorant birds would catch them.

2016年6月21日 · The ancient fishing technique of using a diving cormorant to retrieve live fish started in 960 A.D. in China’s Guangxi Zhuang region. It is now nearly the end of an era, with only a few fisherman still practicing the ancient art.

2017年8月16日 · Cormorant fishing, a method that involves lighting a fire to lure sweetfish and catching them with tamed cormorants, is today a popular tourist attraction that marks the beginning of summer in...