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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

OZE, Japan, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Please click here for photo essay: https://reut.rs/3FUKWOM Cormorants have been a constant presence in Youichiro Adachi's life, and when he was young, he cried whenever ...

Estonia's fisheries councils has proposed to the Ministry of Climate extending cormorant hunting and paying hunters a bounty. The ministry opposes an expansion of culling the birds, and favors ...

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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 ...