The Wider Image: Environmental change threatens what's left of Japan's cormorant fishing legacy
Cormorant fishing master, known as usho, Youichiro Adachi, 48, feeds a cormorant with a fish after cormorant fishing, known as ukai, at home in Oze, Seki, Japan, September 8, 2023. Adachi is the 18th generation of his family to be a usho, and one of about 50 people in Japan carrying on the 1,300-year tradition of using trained birds to dive for fish, and his family has a hereditary mandate to supply the delicacy to the Japanese imperial household. "For me, cormorants are my partners," he said. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon SEARCH "KIM CORMORANTS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.