OZU, Ehime Prefecture—The traditional cormorant fishing season started on the Hijikawa river here on June 1, entertaining spectators who gathered to watch the trained seabirds catch fish in the night.

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 ...

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 Japan.

Reuters Adachi imitates the fluttering of a cormorant to make the bird mimic him, giving Adachi a chance to check on its health at home. Adachi is the 18th generation of his family to be a master ...

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 ...

Europe requires a common management strategy for cormorants in order to reconcile nature conservation and fishing interests. An effective regulation of cormorant populations can only work at the ...

U.S. Representative Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) has introduced a bill that would create a new framework for culling ...

A cormorant sticks its head into the water this week at Westlake Pond in Santa Cruz. Cormorants are highly skilled, visual ...