SUSHI restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura has paid a record $4.3 million for a giant bluefin tuna at the New Year’s auction at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market in Japan.
According to an article on the 9 News website, Kimura’s purchase doubled the previous record, set at the 2013 annual New Year’s auction. The valuable and vulnerable fish tipped the scales at 278 kg.
The president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai said he was startled by how high the price went but not dissuaded from topping the record.
“I expected it (the tuna) will be between 30 million and 50 million yen, or highest at 60 million yen, but it ended up five times more expensive. Oh gosh!”
The massive bluefin tuna was caught near northern Japan’s Aomori prefecture, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.
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