Cormorant Fishing Li River

Read a guide to Yangshuo Guangxi Province famous for its stunning mountain scenery and cormorant fishing, where the birds are trained to catch fish, though they cannot swallow the larger ones due to a rope and ring placed around their gullets. The tradition spread to Japan where it is known as ukai and is practiced, as in China, at sundown along the Nagara River in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.