| Description | 02: Cormorant that has just been hooked and caught | ||
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| Photographer | Migiwa Imaishi | ||
| Place | Jyu-o Town, City of Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture | File Size | 1407 KB |
| Definition | 2363 x 1772 | File Format | jpg |
| Copyright | Migiwa Imaishi | - | |
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Techniques of catching Japanese cormorants used in cormorant fishing
03: Measuring the cormorant that has been caught
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Techniques of catching Japanese cormorants used in cormorant fishing
Most of the wild Japanese cormorants used in cormorant fishing, a traditional fishing technique now found mainly in western Japan, are caught in Jyu-o Town, Ibaraki prefecture. Cormorants in flight are lured into a little hut located on a precipitous cliff facing the Pacific Ocean, by using several cormorants as decoys. They are then hooked with a long bamboo pole, placed in bamboo cages with their bills fixed with a little wooden implement called a hashikake, and sent to cormorant fishing sites all over Japan. 01: Decoy cormorants placed in front of a catching hut
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