A bluefin tuna has fetched a record price of over 3 million dollars in the first auction of the New Year at Tokyo’s Toyosu wholesale seafood market.
Raw and frozen tuna from waters around Japan and elsewhere in the world went under the hammer on Monday morning.
The highest price was set by a bluefin landed at the port of Oma in Aomori Prefecture in northeastern Japan.
A sushi chain based in Tsukiji, Tokyo bid 510 million yen, or about 3.2 million dollars.
The company’s president, Kimura Kiyoshi said, “This is a lucky charm, so I hope people all over Japan can enjoy a bite of it and feel revitalized.”
The price is the highest since at least 1999, when comparable records became available, far exceeding the previous high of 333 million yen set in 2019.
AloJapan.com