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Salmon Fishing in Japan

Welcome to the Salmon Fishing in Japan of Churui River website!!

Shibetsu town, the Churui River is located in the eastern part of Hokkaido and Hokkaido is located at the northern most island in Japan.

An access to Shibetsu, you can fly from Tokyo-Haneda airport directly or via Nakashibetsu airport from Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka or other local airport connecting to from Chitose airport to Okadama-Airprot(Sapporo-city) go on Nakashibetsu-Airport.

Thank you again and we hope you enjoy your big catch in the Churui River.

We are looking forward to hearing you in the near future.
 

Species: Pink or Chum salmons!

                                        

Fishing Season: Aug. 10 - Oct. 20, the best-fishing is in September of every year!

Requirements: Fishing permission is required prior to fishing. You have to register with Shibetsu-town to get the permission.

Let's try salmon fishing this year!

License entry will start from July.1st this year.
And license entry will end to Sptember.20 this year.

We will go fishing from Aug.10!
And we end that fishing to October.20.

If you click here, you can get the way of investigating until last year!

And Salmon Fishing Regulation in Churui River.

 

Regulation and fishing history.

Under the Japanese Fishery Law, Salmon fishing in Japan in river is not lawful. (You can fish however for salmon in the sea.). So why we can fish for Salmon at Churui River in Shibetsu?

1.The Fishery Agency Japan was forced to rationalize Trout and Salmon hatcheries program in Hokkaido.

2.The Churui River (Hatchery) was selected as one of the hatcheries to stop its duties, i.e., to catch, hatch, farm and release trout and salmon.

3.After that every autumn the Churui River is full of Pink and Chum salmon.

Some key members in Shibetsu Town Office, Shibetsu Fishery Cooperative and Hokkaido Sports Fishing Society held a committee meeting to start a movement for Sports fishing of Salmon in the Churui River and to open the river to sport fishing.

Meetings were held many times between the concerned Government and our group.

1995 was a memorable year for sport fishing in Japan. The committee came to an agreement with the Hokkaido Government (and with the consent of the Japanese Government.) to fish Pink and Chum salmon in the Churui River under the restrictions

During the year 1999, 9,300 fishermen and women enjoyed Salmon and Trout fishing at the Churui River in Shibetsu. They were not only local people from Japan but also from Korea and even US air force personnel from Hawaii.

When I met with those foreign fishermen at the Churui River, I always asked them.

"Why did you come to here?" their answer was very simple. "So many attractive Chum here. And Alaska is now too crowded."

Please come and enjoy Your Salmon Fishing at the Churui River. We are looking forward to seeing you here.

End to Entry (September.20 2011)


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