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A popular tourist attraction that has its origins in the very practical basis of
catching fish for food is the art of 鷼 飼 (ukai),
otherwise known as fishing with cormorants. In ancient Chinese and Japanese times, river fisherfolk
would raise cormorants from the egg and train them to dive for fish. Each cormorant has a collar around its
neck so it can't swallow the fish. When the bird returns to the fisherman's boat, it coughs up the fish for
the fisherman, and usually receives a reward (of a piece of fish, naturally).
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