"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

"Hokke" fish caught near Russian-held island

A fishing boat heads to waters around Russian-held Kunashiri Island, from a port in Rausu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, in the small hours of Sept. 16, 2020, to catch Okhotsk atka mackerel, commonly known as "hokke" in Japanese. The island is one of the disputed islets called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

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