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, ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats bulging with fish. The scene resembles the traditional ...

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 ...

NANCHANG, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Over the vast, misty Poyang Lake, Yuan Guosheng wears a raincoat and a straw hat while pushing his boat into the water using a small bamboo stick. On the boat stand his ...

Yuan and his cormorants take a break on the lake. GUO QIANG/XINHUA NANCHANG－Yuan Guosheng wore a raincoat and a straw hat as he pushed his boat with a bamboo pole on the vast waters of misty Poyang ...

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 ...

Cormorant fishing is an ancient way of catching fish on Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake. NANCHANG, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Over the vast, misty Poyang Lake, Yuan Guosheng wears a raincoat and ...

NANCHANG－Yuan Guosheng wore a raincoat and a straw hat as he pushed his boat with a bamboo pole on the vast waters of misty Poyang Lake. On the boat stood his 21 black "fellows"－the cormorants. "The ...