Areas
Eastern Hokkaido Pacific Coast
The eastern Hokkaido Pacific coast is treated as one practical fishing area, based on its geography and travel routes. Seasonal inshore fish and bottom species provide varied targets, but weather, waves and currents can change quickly. Access to ports, seawalls and rocky shores varies, so check current local signs and rules before fishing.
- Prefectures
- Hokkaido
- Waters
- Hokkaido & Sea of Okhotsk, Northern Pacific coast
Fish you can catch in this area
Fish biting this month are shown first
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Japanese Anchovy
カタクチイワシ / Engraulis japonicus
August
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Multicolorfin Rainbowfish
キュウセン / Parajulis poecilepterus
August
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Grey-spotted Puffer
クサフグ / Takifugu alboplumbeus
August
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna
クロマグロ / Thunnus orientalis
August
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Pacific Saury
サンマ / Cololabis saira
August
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Japanese Whiting
シロギス / Sillago japonica
August
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Bullet & frigate tuna (souda-gatsuo)
ソウダガツオ / Auxis rochei / Auxis thazard
August
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Pacific Herring
ニシン / Clupea pallasii
August
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Horn Dragonet
ネズミゴチ / Callionymus curvicornis
August
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Sea Mullet
ボラ / Mugil cephalus
August
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Japanese Horse Mackerel
マアジ / Trachurus japonicus
August
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Whitespotted Conger
マアナゴ / Conger myriaster
August
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Japanese pilchard
マイワシ / Sardinops melanostictus
August
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Pacific Chub Mackerel
マサバ / Scomber japonicus
August
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Common Octopus (East Asian)
マダコ / Octopus sinensis
August
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Sakhalin Taimen
イトウ / Parahucho perryi
August
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False Kelpfish
カサゴ / Sebastiscus marmoratus
August
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Pink Salmon
カラフトマス / Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
August
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Thread-sail Filefish
カワハギ / Stephanolepis cirrhifer
August
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Blackhead Seabream
クロダイ / Acanthopagrus schlegelii
August
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Masu Salmon
サクラマス / Oncorhynchus masou masou
August
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Shishamo Smelt
シシャモ / Spirinchus lanceolatus
August
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Chum Salmon
シロザケ / Oncorhynchus keta
August
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Japanese Seabass
スズキ / Lateolabrax japonicus
August
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Oblong Rockfish
タケノコメバル / Sebastes oblongus
August
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Yellowback Seabream
チダイ / Evynnis tumifrons
August
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Japanese Sandfish
ハタハタ / Arctoscopus japonicus
August
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Japanese Amberjack
ブリ / Seriola quinqueradiata
August
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Sockeye Salmon
ベニザケ / Oncorhynchus nerka
August
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Starspotted Smooth-hound
ホシザメ / Mustelus manazo
August
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Okhotsk Atka Mackerel
ホッケ / Pleurogrammus azonus
August
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Yellowfin Goby
マハゼ / Acanthogobius flavimanus
August
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Brassblotched Rockfish
ムラソイ / Sebastes pachycephalus
August
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Fat Greenling
アイナメ / Hexagrammos otakii
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Stone Flounder
イシガレイ / Kareius bicoloratus
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Temminck's Surfperch
ウミタナゴ / Ditrema temminckii
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white-edged rockfish
エゾメバル / Sebastes taczanowskii
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Yellow goosefish
キアンコウ / Lophius litulon
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Broadbanded thornyhead
キチジ / Sebastolobus macrochir
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Korean Rockfish
クロソイ / Sebastes schlegelii
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Japanese Black Seaperch
クロメバル / Sebastes ventricosus
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Japanese Spanish Mackerel
サワラ / Scomberomorus niphonius
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Gold Rockfish
シマソイ / Sebastes trivittatus
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Japanese White Seaperch
シロメバル / Sebastes cheni
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Alaska Pollock
スケトウダラ / Gadus chalcogrammus
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Starry Flounder
ヌマガレイ / Platichthys stellatus
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Slime flounder
ババガレイ / Microstomus achne
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Olive Flounder
ヒラメ / Paralichthys olivaceus
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Spiny Red Gurnard
ホウボウ / Chelidonichthys spinosus
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Yellow-striped Flounder
マガレイ / Pseudopleuronectes herzensteini
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Marbled Flounder
マコガレイ / Pseudopleuronectes yokohamae
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Red Seabream
マダイ / Pagrus major
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Pacific Cod
マダラ / Gadus macrocephalus
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Purple Puffer
マフグ / Takifugu porphyreus
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Japanese Red Rockfish
メバル / Sebastes inermis
Main fishing facilities in this area
Kushiro Chiyonoura Marine Park
Hokkaido
A free municipal park in Kushiro with a year-round fishing quay, restrooms, and parking.
Tomakomai Port Ippon Breakwater Sea Fishing Facility
Hokkaido
A paid fishing facility on a Tomakomai Port breakwater, open weekends and holidays from April to November.
Seasons, sizes and eating quality are general guides. Rules change, so check the latest prefectural, fishery-cooperative and site rules before fishing. This app provides general information, not legal advice.