Fishing practice using untethered cormorants makes comeback

When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats ...
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Cormorant Fishing: An Ancient Tradition to Mark Each New Summer

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.
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A comeback story that went too far: Once welcomed, cormorant now called threat to fish, trees, birds on fragile Lake Erie isles

SANDUSKY, Ohio -- For most of the 40-odd years that Tom Mayher has fished the waters of western Lake Erie, the walleye, perch and bass were bountiful around the isolated, uninhabited islands along the ...
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State’s newest nester ** Keep watch on lakes, rivers for the fish-eating cormorant

The first time a reader called to report the sighting of double-crested cormorants on a backwoods lake in Pike County, I talked her out of her “positive” identification. I explained that it was an ...
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How Cormorants Swallow Huge Fish Without Choking

A type of seabird, cormorants range across the globe, save for the central Pacific islands. ©kavram/Shutterstock.com Have you ever been so hungry that you don't even bother to chew? That kind of ...