Note 1138 — Chapter XLIII · “PLUS UN PAYS PRODUIT DES POISSONS, PLUS IL PRODUIT D’HOMMES”

Op. cit., but in Japan, especially at Gifu, the cormorant is in common use, while D. Ross, The Land of Five Rivers and Sindh (London, 1883), states that on the Indus not only the Cormorant (Graculus carbo), but also the Pelican and the Otter are similarly employed. Early in the seventeenth century an attempt was made to introduce Cormorant fishing into England as a sport, but failed (cf. Wright, op. cit., p. 182). There was at one time a court official, styled The Master of the Herons.