and most usho begin fishing at sundown. Cormorants are put on the boats in large bamboo baskets and taken to the river to begin their day. Once on the river, Usho light fires over the water to ...

(Mainichi/Kentaro Suzuki) UJI, Kyoto -- The Uji River ushered in its annual cormorant fishing season on July 20 to the delight of tourists visiting this western Japan city, after the summer ...

From merely humorous anecdotes three of the party drifted into reminiscent talk of Summers spent in far-off America, and of the good fishing ... across the river and show us the cormorants ...

GIFU -- Traditional cormorant fishing has begun on the Nagara River in this central Japan city, with fiery torches on boats creating a magical atmosphere for spectators. Cormorant fishing boasts a ...

A cormorant sits in a basket before cormorant fishing or ‘ukai’ on the Nagara River in Oze (Reuters) Adachi is the 18th generation of his family to be a master cormorant fisherman, and one of ...

“I’m relieved they’ve done it.” Tethered cormorant fishing along the Ujigawa river, a specialty on summer nights, has long been popular among tourists. “Spectators will feel the ties we ...

Cormorants perch in December on the seaside span of the Astoria-Megler Bridge, a crucial connection of Highway 101 across the Columbia River ... dams to hatcheries to fishing, predators of ...