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 ...

according to the national saury stick-held dip-net fishing cooperative. The fish, known as sanma in Japan, sold for 724 yen ($5) per kilogram at the season's first auction at a market in Nemuro ...

The animal has been spotted using a stationary fishing net as its personal feeding ground ... at more than one swimming beach on the Sea of Japan side of Japan, where it gave swimmers “love ...