About Us

In 1989, we started offering
fishery education to meet
people’s expectation in Nou
town in Itoigawa city, Niigata
because the town faces JapanSea and people engaged infishery business.
Nou town established “NouFishery Supplementary School”
in 1890. Niigata Prefecture took it
over and renamed it to “Niigata
Kaiyo High School” in 1993.

Mission Statement
At Niigata Kaiyo High School, we…

1. Produce a strong, steady figure whorespects the sea, learns from the sea,and lives in the harmony with the sea.
2. Cooperate with the other fisheryschools in Japan, and develop
education system on the fishery ormarine studies.
3. Provide students with the expertise infishery or the ocean, and prepare themto contribute to the communityor the country.

Niigata Kaiyo High School has four distinctive series of courses; Fishery
Cultivation, Fishery Provision, Marine Technique, and Marine Engineering.
In the first year, students find out their interest, studying liberal arts andintroductory fishery courses, and choose their course to take in the second
and third year.

Fishery Cultivation• Study about marine organism or
sustainable development of the sea• Cultivate flounder, devil stinger,
Japanese huchen, Japanese kelp, andBlackthroat seaperch

Fishery Provision• Study about quality control, safety
management, or cookery science• Practice processing food inaccordance with HACCPMarine Technique• Study about fishing techniques,nautical instruments, or navigation• Go on board for 60 days in total,and get discipline as a sailor

Marine Engineering• Study about construction work on
the waterfront or machineries• Learn diving techniques so that they
can work in the sea

Students learn the best in the community, so we work in cooperate withltoigawa city and the local companies.

“Saigo no itteki” (Fish sauce)

Food Science Club produced a ﬁsh sauce called “Saigono itteki,” using the salmon caught in the local river,
but which had never used and discarded before.
The city, the alumni, and the school invested together,and established an institute named “Nou-sui Shop.”Students learn many things including marketingstrategies by running the shop. This project hasreceived a good reputation, and got an national
award in 2015. In 2018, “Nou-sui Shop becamea joint-stock company.

Sturgeon and Japanese huchen

Sturgeon is a ﬁsh which produces the well-known caviar.
Japanese huchen, freshwater salmonoid fish that grows to
1.5 meters, is now so rare. A local construction company built
a fish nursery and manages it. We give them some technicaladvice to keep sturgeon and Japanese huchen, while theyOﬀer our students an opportunity to take care of the ﬁsh.

We have several
unique clubs such as
Diving, Cutter Boat,
Food Science, Marine
Organism, and so on.
Above all, our Sumo
Club is one of the best
teams in Japan.

More than a third of students continue studying
at advanced schools. The others ﬁndemployment not only in ﬁshery industry but also
in a variety of industries such as manufacturing,engineering, or food business. (data: 2017-2019)
1%
9%

1%

28%
61%

4 year university

2 year university

Employment

OthersTwo training ships (322 tons, 19tons), a diving pool (10 metersdepth), a ﬁsh nursery, a factory, afood factory, dormitories, etc.

Vocational school

Contact
3040 Nou Ohaza, Itoigawa city,Niigata, Japan, 949-1352
Phone: 025-566-3155
Fax: 025-566-4781

Kaiyo Maru, our new training ship
was completed in 2019.

Website:http://www.kaiyouh.nein.ed.jp