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Li River Fisherman

LAST UPDATE: 14th January 2023
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Li River Fisherman

Traditional Cormorant Fishing

The Li River fisherman is famous for the traditional Cormorant Fishing practice, which is undertaken along the Li River. This traditional fishing style has a long history of more than 1,000 years on the Li River.   These fishermen train the cormorant birds to catch fish for them. The Cormorant Birds stand perched on the bamboo raft whilst waiting to catch fish. 
 
Usually, a Li River fisherman would choose a shallow section of the Li River to let the cormorants catch fish. When the bamboo raft stops, the Li River fisherman speaks a special command, which the birds understand and subsequently dive into the water to go fishing. When the fish are caught, the cormorants won’t eat/swallow them but keep the fish in their mouth to return to the fisherman.

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​The Li River Fisherman usually employs another type of fishing to catch fish. In the daytime, he uses a fishing net to encircle the fishes in the Li River and then pushes the cormorants into the water to catch the fishes. Sometimes, the Li River fisherman also works in the evening. An oil lamp is hung at one end of the bamboo raft to lighten the river bottom that the cormorants can be able to see the fishes in the river and try to catch them. 

Nowadays, modern fishing techniques have replaced these traditional fishing methods but many photographers still support these fishermen with the sunset photography along the Li River being a very famous Southern China photograph. 
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