Quotes ...archives Fisherman's Best Friend - Cormorants * In various parts of Asia including China, Vietnam and Japan, fishermen train cormorants (small, black, web footed birds) to fish for them. * Boats or bamboo rafts equipped with lanterns or torch flames will head out on the rivers at night with a flock of cormorants perched at the edges. * The fish are attracted to the boat lanterns, and the cormorants swimming alongside the boat pluck them out of the water easily. * To prevent the birds from eating the fish themselves, sometimes collars are fitted so that they are unable to swallow the bigger fish. Other birds are so gentle and so well trained that they will regurgitate the fish from their stomachs on command. * In business, the act of people who buy stock prices when they are really low is called "bottom fishing". Photo courtesy of Jennifer Fong Copyright © 2005 The Little Entrepreneur Pte Ltd. All Rights Reserved.