Cormorant Fishing in Asia
One of my colleagues was telling me a story about the Japanese using cormorants to catch fish, apparently you can go on cormorant fishing tours.
They secure a small metal ring round the cormorants throat so it can't swallow the fish, they then send them out, the birds try to catch a fish and it gets trapped in their mouth, they then swim over to the boat and release their catch. Their masters give them one or two fish every few that they catch as reward for their endeavours.
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Seems to me that takes a lot of the enjoyment out of fishing.
The reason I never overly liked (though the experience was always great) deep-sea mackeral fishing (normally 25 miles off Donegal) was that it was a 'oh look! The sonar says there is a shoal. Let us lower the lines, then wind them in again'. Where is the fun in that?
Posted by: mwk | January 8, 2004 01:44 PM
Did you know a comorant and a shag are two different birds? I didn't, I though the name was interchangable...
Posted by: Stephen | January 8, 2004 02:09 PM
I thought they were one of the same too.
Posted by: Andy | January 8, 2004 03:28 PM
Um, I thought they were different. Why did youse think they were the same?
Posted by: mwk | January 8, 2004 05:24 PM
Because they are practically the same to a fisherman, the difference between them is almost impossible to see at 50yards, and not very important because they both do the same thing, eat all your fish. Unless you're an ornithologist of course.
Posted by: Stephen | January 8, 2004 05:31 PM