The Daily News Leader from Staunton, Virginia • 5

Japanese Train Birds To Fish 1 WASHINGTON. July 22 A lummer gets under way in Japan, men and cormorants are teaming up again for the annual SERVICE DRUG STORES 1 Jfe live-months fishing season. Along the Nagara River In central Honshu Island, Japanese boatmen are taking their trained birds out to dive tor the rich catch of ayu, a small talmonhke fish also called sweetfish. The partnership is an ancient one, carried on by traditional methods, says the National Geographic Society. For at least a thousand years, Japanese fishermen have made use of the big bird's skill in scooping up the slippery fish' in their long, hooked beaks.

One family Is reported to have passed the occupation down through 18 generations. The birds are controlled by a leash with plenty of leeway for swimming and diving. To keep them from swallowing the prize, a metal ring, strap, or string is INC AH Decorated 11 -Ounce GLASSES 39c Ladies I Choice of Dogwood or Modern Design 4-1- SCUFFS Floral designs Regular 10c Value Assorted Colors Sizes mm 12c Hudson 98c Kingsford Vtf. PAPER $2.98 Ladies Crsal Clecr Glo U-Piece I. mm sSP pair Charcoal looped tightly at the base of their necks.

Bizarre Sight After-dark cormorant fishing presents a bizarre spectacle that has fascinated many a foreign visitor. The head fisherman wears a ceremonial skull cap and a water-repellent grass skirt resembling a hula costume. All toe birds are numbered and placed In the boats strictly according to rank. As daylight fades, en iron basket alight with flamteig pitch is suspended from the side of the boat to lure the fish. The dark, NAPKINS Fire-King Household RUBBER Box of 80 Briquets 29c ABC linina Like PAPER PLATES SUN GLASSES With Attractive Case 10 Pounds 19' 0 To- no GLOVES Package 70 of 18..

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Otherwise they must wait until the job is over before receiving their reward. A lively cormorant may take 100 to 200 fish an hour an indication not only- of energy but of the voracious appetite for which they are noted. i Introduced by Chinese i Fishing coEmorants were introduced into Japan from China, where they had been known from time" Immemorial. Some present-day 'Chinese use a different system. On the Sung-arl River in Manchuria, the fishing is done by daylight.

No leash is used. The birds dive freely, although their throats are tied so that they cannot eat. When enough fish are taken, the boatmen recapture the loaded birds in a butterfly net on a long stick. Rebellious cormorants occasionally try to escape by flying off, but with their wings clipped-, they cannot go far. Cormorant fishing, both as sport and as means of livelihood, flourished in medieval England.

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