SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive. Equipped with a bird, gas lamp and net, he fishes without the aid of a rod by using an unusual method - first practiced in 960 AD. The fisherman, pictured in southern China, releases a cormorant bird which dives into the water and retrieves a carp, before returning to the fisherman’s reed raft. The stunning images of cormorant fishing were captured on the River Li in Guilin, China by Russian photographer Viktoriia Rogotneva when he visited the fishermen of Guilin.
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AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
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Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
