Night Fishermen

A creative and synergistic relationship between man and animal is displayed in a beautiful photograph.


From Luminous Landscape...

For centuries fishermen on the Li River of Southern China have partnered with cormorants to catch fish. Each fisherman has a complement of half a dozen or so trained birds. The light of a lantern attracts the fish, and the cormorants return to the boat, fish in beak. They can’t swallow them because the fisherman fix a band around their necks, but they eventually get their share.

The article provides no additional detail on this kind of fishing but is a study in how the photograph was composed and taken which is also pretty interesting.