A monster bluefin tuna for a record $ 396,000 in the first auction of the year the world's largest market for fish sold in Tokyo Wednesday at highly competitive tender before dawn.
342 pounds of fish - in the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan caught - has submitted a surcharge of 32.49 million yen (U.S. $ 396,000), an official said at the Tsukiji fish market.
It was the highest bid, for example, however, paid surpassing the previous record of 20.02 million yen for bluefin tuna in 2001, officials said.
A piece of sashimi, a piece of raw fish on the mass of the sample is estimated to sell for 3450 yen at cost price, reported local media.
The fish was from a couple in Japan and Hong Kong owner of a sushi restaurant that was also the joint offer of more than one red from the first auction last year bought at Tsukiji market for more than 40 football fields.
"I felt relieved," said Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner told reporters on the market, the total of 538 bluefin tuna sold at high prices before the dawn.
"It's a good tuna," he said. "The high price was because foreign buyers are also demanding tuna."
Local media said bidders from China, where the growing popularity of high quality red, helped lower the price for his new album.
"Has led the globalization of food markets at high prices," a participant said to Kyodo News.
"This is good news that drives the entire market. Hopefully. The fact that the Japanese economy a boost and collect in this way"
Decades of overfishing in an accident in the global tuna stocks have been, after which some Western countries seek to ban the trade of bluefin tuna from extinction.
Japan consumes three quarters of the world catches of bluefin tuna sushi precious ingredient in Japan known as "KURO maguro (tuna black) and synchronized by sushi lovers, the" Black Diamond "because of their rarity.
342 pounds of fish - in the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan caught - has submitted a surcharge of 32.49 million yen (U.S. $ 396,000), an official said at the Tsukiji fish market.
It was the highest bid, for example, however, paid surpassing the previous record of 20.02 million yen for bluefin tuna in 2001, officials said.
A piece of sashimi, a piece of raw fish on the mass of the sample is estimated to sell for 3450 yen at cost price, reported local media.
The fish was from a couple in Japan and Hong Kong owner of a sushi restaurant that was also the joint offer of more than one red from the first auction last year bought at Tsukiji market for more than 40 football fields.
"I felt relieved," said Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner told reporters on the market, the total of 538 bluefin tuna sold at high prices before the dawn.
"It's a good tuna," he said. "The high price was because foreign buyers are also demanding tuna."
Local media said bidders from China, where the growing popularity of high quality red, helped lower the price for his new album.
"Has led the globalization of food markets at high prices," a participant said to Kyodo News.
"This is good news that drives the entire market. Hopefully. The fact that the Japanese economy a boost and collect in this way"
Decades of overfishing in an accident in the global tuna stocks have been, after which some Western countries seek to ban the trade of bluefin tuna from extinction.
Japan consumes three quarters of the world catches of bluefin tuna sushi precious ingredient in Japan known as "KURO maguro (tuna black) and synchronized by sushi lovers, the" Black Diamond "because of their rarity.
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