In September, when the season’s salmon fishing began in Hokkaido, the Dainana Kyoshinmaru pulled up several two-meter-long sunfish in its fixed nets off the coast of Kushiro. Typically ...

The smelt fishing season is underway at Onuma Quasi-National Park in Nanae Town, Hokkaido – an activity that has almost a century of history behind it. In the first catch, fish size appears to ...

The haul of pink salmon in rivers in Hokkaido has plummeted to roughly one-20th the size of the previous good catch in 2020. Those in the industry suggest that warmer waters have led to the ...

RAUSU, Hokkaido—Set net fishing for salmon, where nets are dropped along migrating fish routes, is at its seasonal peak off the Shiretoko Peninsula on the eastern point of Japan’s northernmost ...

Residents of Suttsu worry that, despite potential economic benefits, a nuclear waste facility will harm the community and ...

Reuters Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula is popular ... on Saturday morning the Kazu 1 tour boat headed out of the little fishing port of Utoro - heading up the peninsula. The boat could hold ...

In Japan’s northernmost island, the century-old technique of ice fishing remains virtually unchanged ... This paid content article was created for Hokkaido District Transport Bureau.

Located on Hokkaido, Japan’s ruggedly beautiful northern island, the seaside fishing town hugs the windswept western coast. There, they opened a small inn called “Pension Mellow” which sits ...