A giant bluefin tuna has made an astonishing £1.05m at a Tokyo auction.
The first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market – one of the world’s largest wholesale fish markets — typically reels in eye-watering prices. This year’s star was a bluefin tuna weighing 276kg (608lb) making it equivalent in weight to a typical male grizzly bear.
It sold for an eye-watering 207m Japanese yen, making it one of the most expensive tuna ever auctioned in the history of sushi.
The enormous fish, comparable in size to a motorbike, was caught off the coast of Oma in northeast Japan by 73-year-old fisherman Masahiro Takeuchi. “It was as fat as a cow. It’s like a dream,” Takeuchi told reporters.
The tuna was jointly bought by a wholesaler and a company that operates a popular chain of sushi restaurants.
“The year’s first tuna brings good luck. We want to make people smile with food,” said Shinji Nagao, the president of the sushi restaurant operator.
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