China: Drone Rescues Stranded Fisherman From Rising River in Zhejiang

On October 13, in Lishui, Zhejiang, a video captured a man fishing when the river’s water level suddenly surged, leaving him stranded in the middle of the current. Chen, a local drone operator, quickly responded by deploying a crop-spraying drone with a maximum takeoff weight of 150 kilograms. The footage showed the drone hovering above the river and lowering a rope for the man to grab before airlifting him to the riverbank in just two minutes.This is the tense moment that a drone pilot in China used an agricultural drone to save a fisherman trapped by a sudden flash flood.

China: Octopus Clings to Phone After Being Caught by Fisher in Fuzhou

In Fuzhou, Fujian, a video captured a man fishing when he unexpectedly caught an octopus with a phone stuck to one of its tentacles on September 28. The octopus refused to let go, wrapping its arms tightly around the device as if claiming it as its own.

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

ORIKHIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A man catches fish on the icebound river in winter in front-line Orikhiv, Polohy district, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine.(Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform)

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

ORIKHIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A man catches fish on the icebound river in winter in front-line Orikhiv, Polohy district, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine.(Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform)

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

ORIKHIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A man catches fish on the icebound river in winter in front-line Orikhiv, Polohy district, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine.(Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform)

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

Front-line Orikhiv in southeastern Ukraine

ORIKHIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - A man catches fish on the icebound river in winter in front-line Orikhiv, Polohy district, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine.(Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform)

Water level in Dnipro River in Cherkasy

Water level in Dnipro River in Cherkasy

CHERKASY, UKRAINE - DECEMBER 21, 2023 - A man fishes by the Dnipro River as the water level is low, Cherkasy, central Ukraine.

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - JUNE 28, 2023 - A man fishes on the Dnipro River that has become shallow after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP dam, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - JUNE 28, 2023 - A man fishes on the Dnipro River that has become shallow after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP dam, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - JUNE 28, 2023 - A man fishes on the Dnipro River that has become shallow after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP dam, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - JUNE 28, 2023 - A man fishes on the Dnipro River that has become shallow after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP dam, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

Sunset fishing on shallow Dnipro river

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - JUNE 28, 2023 - A man fishes on the Dnipro River that has become shallow after the Russians blew up the Kakhovka HPP dam, Zaporizhzhia, south-eastern Ukraine

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16.

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island (arrowed) off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16.

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

Alex Rebar & Samuel W. Gelfman Characters: Steve West (The Melting Man) & Fisherman Film: The Incredible Melting Man (1977) Director: William Sachs 17 December 1977 Date: 17 December 1977

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Man looks at cenotaph for 131 fishermen killed in WWII air strikes

Man looks at cenotaph for 131 fishermen killed in WWII air strikes

Fisherman Masakazu Yabuki looks at a cenotaph on Feb. 13, 2015, at a Buddhist temple in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, dedicated to 131 fishermen killed by U.S. air strikes on about 30 fishing boats in Pacific waters off nearby Ibaraki Prefecture on Feb. 25, 1945. "I thought then that war should never happen again," he said. (Photo by Seiji Nakamura) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield, on April 11, 2015. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan marks 4 years since quake, tsunami, nuclear disasters

Japan marks 4 years since quake, tsunami, nuclear disasters

A man touches the name of a fellow fisherman who was killed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan as he visits a monument to the victims in Sendai on March 11, 2015, the fourth anniversary of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16. (Kyodo)

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island (arrowed) off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16. (Kyodo)

Mt. Fuji topped with snow,seen from Lake Yamanaka

Mt. Fuji topped with snow,seen from Lake Yamanaka

Mt. Fuji seen from Lake Yamanaka. The upside-down Fuji is vaguely reflected on the surface. Since the amount of snowfall on the mountain differs from that in photograph #5038, the time of the two photographs is different. A man, probably a fisherman, and someone welcoming him (or seeing him off) can be seen.==Date:1904, Place:Yamanashi, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number98‐6‐0]

A man fishing with a square net

A man fishing with a square net

This is a valuable photo depicting a fishing technique previously unknown even to folklorists. It appears to be shirauo fishing in the early spring, as bamboo leaves are visible in the square net. In the backgound is a single-sailed boat called chabune.==Date:1904, Place:Matsushima, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐53‐0]

A fisherman in a mountain gorge

A fisherman in a mountain gorge

A man catches fish in a suburb of Nagasaki around 1887. The hand-tinted photograph captures the natural beauty of Nagasaki and the appearance of a fisherman. There are small rivers in the Nagasaki area. Also, many photographs were taken of Wakana River in Mogi, outside Nagasaki.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number58‐14‐0]

Fisherman

Fisherman

A fisherman wearing a loincloth takes his boat out to sea. Nets can be seen on the boat. Japanese have depended on fish for protein, and fishery was popular. You could sell your fish, for those obtained in the shallow or beaches as long as they sold, and for those further to the depths, as long as you had membership in the fisherman's association.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐21‐0]