In Tokyo, a giant bluefin tuna sold at auction for a record 32.49 million yen—nearly $396,000. The price for the 754-pound tuna beat the previous record set in 2001 when a 445-pound fish sold for 20.2 million yen. What do you do with a fish that sold for $526 per pound? Make sushi.
Tomoko A. Hosaka of the Associated Press has more: Link (Photo: AFP/Jiji Press)
The massive tuna was bought and shared by the same duo that won the bidding for last year's top fish: the owners of Kyubey, an upscale sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza district, and Itamae Sushi, a casual, Hong Kong-based chain.
Reporters thronged Hong Kong entrepreneur Ricky Cheng after his big win, which reflects the growing popularity of sushi around the world, particularly in Asia.
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Japan is the world's biggest consumer of seafood, with Japanese eating 80 percent of the Atlantic and Pacific bluefins caught. The two tuna species are the most sought-after by sushi lovers.
Fatty bluefin — called "o-toro" here — can sell for 2,000 yen ($24) per piece at high-end Tokyo sushi restaurants.
Tomoko A. Hosaka of the Associated Press has more: Link (Photo: AFP/Jiji Press)
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With their unsustainable overfishing of bluefin tuna - it won't be long before that's the everyday price.
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The Tragedy of the Commons writ large....
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Funny how this doesn't register with the Asian community that soon there will be no Blue Fin Tuna because they ate them all.
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