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 ...

Hokkaido. This year, the start of the fishing season was moved up one week from the previous year, an unusual measure. The fishing grounds rich in chum salmon, pink salmon and sockeye salmon are ...

TOKYO -- A Japanese fishing boat carrying five people capsized off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Sunday, leaving two crew members missing, local media reported. According to the ...

Salmon fishing in rivers is illegal under the law on the protection of fishery resources and Hokkaido's regulations ... plaintiffs' arguments have no legal grounds and claimed that the regulations ...