Cormorants are amazing hunters. They catch their fish while swimming underwater but they have to come to the surface to swallow it. In this case, the morning catch was a catfish and the cormorant is having a hard time getting it down. The catfish not wanting to take that final lap around the cormorant’s belly is sticking its pectoral and dorsal fins straight out as a last ditch effort at survival. These fins are long bony spines and when pushed outward become wider than the cormorant’s gaping ma