Cormorant fishing master, known as usho, Youichiro Adachi, 48, poses for a picture with his cormorant, before cormorant fishing or ukai, on the Nagara River in Oze, Seki, Japan. Environmental changes are bringing more unpredictable weather with heavy rains and a new necessity for anti-flood barriers on a once calm river, with smaller rocks and sand filling the river bottom and obstructing the larger rocks that form ayu river fish’ habitats.
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