A bluefin tuna kyanopteros sold.
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a record price of 565,000 euros (56.49 million yen) in the first auction of the year ... made the fish market in Tokyo Tsoukitzi, the largest in the world.
Weighing 269 pounds, the fish caught off the province of Aomori (northern Japan) and was purchased by the owner of a famous sushi restaurant chain in Tokyo, Sushi Zanmai.
This is the most expensive tuna in the history of Japan, after a record 32.49 million yen was allocated last year for a huge fish, 342 pounds, said an officer of the fish market.
"I wanted to get the best tuna to eat in the Japanese customers and not foreigners," said the winner of the auction Kigiosi Kimoura.
At this price, the piece of fillet in sashimi (raw fish) or sushi (accompanied with vinegar rice) should be available for about 5,000 yen (50 euros) a piece, but the owner of Sushi Zanmai will sell at normal price 418 yen (4 euros), according to Japanese media.
Japan consumes 80% of bluefin tuna caught in the world, mainly in the form of sushi. But the tone of superior quality assessed increasingly in China and Chinese participation in the auctions raises prices.
Weighing 269 pounds, the fish caught off the province of Aomori (northern Japan) and was purchased by the owner of a famous sushi restaurant chain in Tokyo, Sushi Zanmai.
This is the most expensive tuna in the history of Japan, after a record 32.49 million yen was allocated last year for a huge fish, 342 pounds, said an officer of the fish market.
"I wanted to get the best tuna to eat in the Japanese customers and not foreigners," said the winner of the auction Kigiosi Kimoura.
At this price, the piece of fillet in sashimi (raw fish) or sushi (accompanied with vinegar rice) should be available for about 5,000 yen (50 euros) a piece, but the owner of Sushi Zanmai will sell at normal price 418 yen (4 euros), according to Japanese media.
Japan consumes 80% of bluefin tuna caught in the world, mainly in the form of sushi. But the tone of superior quality assessed increasingly in China and Chinese participation in the auctions raises prices.
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