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 ...

Commercially popular fishing methods put the tradition at risk of disappearing. More sediment, falling water levels, and higher temperatures are making it harder to fish. Under the light of the moon, ...

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 ...

INUYAMA, Japan >> The 1,300-year-old summer tradition of ukai, or cormorant fishing, started June 1 on the Kiso River in Inuyama, Aichi prefecture. Ukai goes on day and night on the river, which runs ...

Cormorants have been a constant presence in Youichiro Adachi’s life, and when he was young, he cried whenever one of his family’s birds died. Now 48, Adachi still cares deeply for his birds, drawing ...

Cormorants are long-necked, long-billed diving birds. They swim underwater like fish, fly in a V like geese, roost like chickens and paddle around in the water like loons. In short, they are weird.

IT is sometimes said that since the neolithic age man has made no progress in domesticating wild creatures, except for the improvements made in the breeds of animals domesticated at that time. But the ...

Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method in Japan and China for over 1,300 years. Commercially popular fishing methods put the tradition at risk of disappearing. More sediment, falling water levels ...