Tsukiji first Tuna auction
Published January 6th, 2008
Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market held its first tuna auction of the new year on Saturday, fetching a price of ¥6.07 million, the highest in five years, for a 276-kg bluefin tuna.
The tuna, caught off Aomori Prefecture, was bought by the owner of a Hong Kong-based sushi chain. The price per kg came to ¥22,000.
About 2,900 tuna were put on sale at the auction.
