Bluefin tuna sells for record $3.2 million at year-opening auction at Tokyo fish

[Texacon]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220911517

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
41 min ago
Bluefin tuna sells for record $3.2 million at year-opening auction at Tokyo fish market

TOKYO (AP) — A massive 243-kilogram (535-pound) bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market.

The top bidder for the prized tuna at the predawn auction on Monday was Kiyomura Corp., whose owner Kiyoshi Kimura runs the popular Sushi Zanmai chain. Kimura, who has won the annual action many times in the past, broke the previous record of 334 million yen ($2.1 million) he set in 2019.

Kimura later told reporters he was hoping to pay a bit less for it, but “the price shot up before you knew it.”

The auction started when the bell rang, and the floor was filled with torpedo-shaped fish with their tails cut off so bidders could examine meat details such as color, texture and fattiness while walking around the rows of tuna.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-tuna-auction-fish-market-record-ee40ecf56d234a14a625cc09b7a2f8e1

Srkdqltr

1. Thats insane.

6 min ago

Stupid rich people doing stupid rich people things.

These are the people who don’t think we should have any say in what people on food stamps should be able to purchase.

Hey DUmmie, come explain that logic to us.

KC

[SVPete]

Is pretzellating an event in Tokyo, Japan into calling it Trumpflation too great a challenge for DU's very-mental-midgets?

[Ralph Wiggum]

Maybe the buyer was going to purchase this to embrace the joy of collectivism rather than the cold individualism.