
<p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>A bluefin Tuna fish was sold for almost $800,000 at Tokyo’s largest fish market during an auction.</strong></p>



<p>The massive bluefin tuna weighing nearly 525 pounds was sold at auction on the opening day of business for 2024.</p>



<p>It was purchased by seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and a sushi chain for nearly $800,000.</p>



<p>Yamayuki and sushi chain Onodera group have purchased the market’s priciest fish of the new season for four years running.</p>



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<p>“If we were going to do it, we wanted to win,” Yamayuki president Yukitaka Yamaguchi told reporters that had assembled upon the auction’s conclusion.</p>



<p>The tuna, caught off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, will be served as sushi at Onodera, a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in the Japanese capital’s ritzy Ginza district, The Japan Times writes.</p>



<p>The sale of the tuna was the fourth-highest sale since recordkeeping began in 1999. It was also the highest price paid for a tuna at the bustling Toyosu Fish Market since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>



<p>The tuna sold for more than triple the price of the most expensive fish sold at 2023’s first-of-the-year auction, sparking hopes of a market rebound after the pandemic put downward pressure on fish prices alongside Japanese tourism and restaurant business.</p>



<p>The record for the highest fish sale was set in 2019 when Kiyoshi “Tuna King” Kimura, a Japanese sushi restaurant chain owner, paid 333.6 million yen ($3.1 million) for a 613-pound bluefin at the annual auction.</p>



<p>He later admitted to reporters that he paid five times what he had expected.</p>



<p>“The tuna looks so tasty and very fresh, but I think I did too much,” Kimura said outside the market after the 2019 auction.</p>
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