A wealthy restaurant owner in Japan has spent $ 736,000 to buy a bluefin tuna. This is the record price paid for a fish at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo.
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| Con tuna sold for $ 736,000. |
According to AFP , the tuna weighing 269 kg was caught off Aomori province, northern Japan, the price paid 56.49 million yen ($ 736,500) in the first auction of the year. This huge amount has broken the price of 32.49 million yen before, at the inaugural auction last year at Tsukiji, a large fish market as well as many attractions of Tokyo tourists.
The winner of the auction today is Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the company operating the restaurant chain famous Sushi-Zanmai. According to local media, priced at around 210,000 yen per kg, a slice of sushi made from fish may be equivalent to 5,000 yen. However, Kimura's restaurant plans to sell the popular sushi for the price than the 418 yen each time.
"I want to win the best tuna to Japanese customers, not foreigners, are able to enjoy it," Kimura said, referring to a Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner won in the auction of fish tuna last year.
The overfishing of decades as the number of tuna declined worldwide, making the Western countries calling for a ban on fishing the Atlantic bluefin tuna is in danger.
Japan is consumed three-quarters of bluefin tuna caught in the world, because it is an important ingredient of sushi is called "Kuro maguro" sushi and who understand the nickname "black diamond "because of its rarity.
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