Cormorant Fishing

• In China, they used trained birds - Cormorants to be exact- to catch fish for them... In China and Japan, the practice of cormorant fishing is thought to date back some 1300 years. Fishermen use the natural fish-hunting instincts of the cormorants to catch fish, but a metal ring placed round the bird's neck prevents large, valuable fish from being swallowed. The fish are instead collected by the fisherman. Source: Survivor China, info from Wikipedia.