the king fisherman by AaronChoiPhoto

a lone cormorant fisherman on the li river in guagxi china relaxing by the river with the lantern on to lure in the fishes at night. Taken in xingping, china.

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tranquility by roaldgoossen

With just a bird, a gas lamp and a net, each morning, fisherman in China keep a special, thousand year old tradition alive.
Sailing peacefully across a river, the men fish without the aid of a rod with this unusual method, which was first practiced in 960 AD.
The men, pictured in southern China, release a cormorant bird, which then dives into the water and retrieves a carp, returning it to the fisherman’s reed raft.

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