Traditional Chinese Fishing With Cormorants

Cormorant fishing is an old fashioned fishing technique during which fishermen take advantage of trained cormorants in order to fish in rivers. To manipulate these birds, the fishermen tie up a snare close to the bottom of the birds neck. This keeps the birds from eating bigger fish that are kept in their throat. Every time a cormorant has caught a fish, the fisherman brings him into the fishing boat using ropes attached with their bodies.