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Bluefin tuna auctioned in Tokyo for record $736000

1. * Unusual business: A giant bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a whopping $736000 at an auction Thursday in Tokyo. The winning bidder is, perhaps not surprisingly, the president of a sushi restaurant chain. unemployment_1024 . jpg. This year's record tuna was caught off Oma, in Aomori prefecture and just north of the [...]

January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Bluefin Tuna | No Comments

Bluefin tuna auctioned in Tokyo for record $736000

Fancy a $50 piece of sushi? That's what one piece of a 593-pound blue fin tuna sold Thursday at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market for a record $736000 is worth. JT Holt shows off his 265 lb. bluefin tuna he caught Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 on the Wave Runner III about a mile and a half [...]

January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Bluefin Tuna | No Comments