In conventional cormorant fishing, a fisherman adjusts the tightness of the rope wound around a cormorant’s throat to prevent the bird from swallowing river fish it has caught, such as sweetfish.

A fisherman was spotted on Jan. 20 throwing a ... Park.Wildlife rehabilitator Amanda Burke arrived at the scene to find the bird with its right wing drooping and bleeding heavily, according ...

“More and more people say they have been looking forward to the opening of the season,” said cormorant fisherman Toshikazu Inoue, 58. Some 120 people on 14 boats witnessed the season’s first ...