The World's Most Expensive Tuna - Neatorama

How much would you pay for a piece of really fresh sushi? A sushi restaurant has just bought what is the world's most expensive fish: $736,000 for a bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Japan.

The winning bidder, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., which operates the Sushi-Zanmai restaurant chain, said he wanted to give Japan a boost after last year's devastating tsunami.
The fish was divided into 10,000 pieces and sold off at ordinary prices, The Daily Telegraph reported.
"Japan has been through a lot the last year due to the disaster," a beaming Kimura told AP Television News. "Japan needs to hang in there. So I tried hard myself and ended up buying the most expensive one."

Link | More at MSNBC's PhotoBlog (Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

This is really sad and tragic, the oceans are being over fished as I type this and these beautiful giant tuna are going to be extinct very soon. I don't understand the greed that drives people to take the last remaining "tigers of the sea". This is not neat.

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tuna is not endangered but it is delicious. I don't think a single piece of that sashimi will go to waste and the income it brought in has to be a welcome boost to the economy there. Either way that's one big ass expensive fish.

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@J - There are several species of "tuna." The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, which is highly prized sushi fish, is endangered.

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I wonder what they'll pay for the last one.

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Mediterranean Sea is raped by poachers over fishing the blue fin tuna... The biggest specimen like this one have already disapeared. Last year's survey showed that fishermen caught 3 times more fish than their allowed quota. The whe species has been depleted by 90%, and could go extinct within 5 years.
Wake up! :-(

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Only governments can solve the problem of extinction, but they don't care because there is too much money to be made and they won't shed a tear when there are no tuna left.

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Get your facts right people the "PACIFIC" Bluefin Tuna is considered "least concern" in the conservation status. Now if you ask me fish away for the economy. I wonder how much one would go on ebay for....

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