Areas
Sea of Okhotsk Coast
The Sea of Okhotsk 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
Fish you can catch in this area
Fish biting this month are shown first
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Pacific Saury
サンマ / Cololabis saira
August
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Pacific Herring
ニシン / Clupea pallasii
August
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Sakhalin Taimen
イトウ / Parahucho perryi
August
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Pink Salmon
カラフトマス / Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
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 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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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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Broadbanded thornyhead
キチジ / Sebastolobus macrochir
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Korean Rockfish
クロソイ / Sebastes schlegelii
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Gold Rockfish
シマソイ / Sebastes trivittatus
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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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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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Pacific Cod
マダラ / Gadus macrocephalus
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.