Bluefin Tuna Auctioned In Tokyo For Record $736,000.A restaurateur with a lot of money paid out nearly $ 750,000 for a Japanese market for tuna in the Tsukiji fish on Thursday, breaking the record price for a single red.
The 269 kilograms (592 pounds) of fish - caught off the coast of northern Aomori prefecture in Japan - stood at 56.49 million yen striking ($ 736.500), when the hammer came in the first auction of the year.
The figure dwarfs the previous record of 32.49 million yen paid in last year's inaugural auction at Tsukiji, a huge labor market is in many tourist itineraries in Tokyo.
Winner of Thursday was Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the company that runs the popular sushi Zanmai chain.
In about 210,000 yen per kilogram, a single slice of sushi can cost as much as 5,000 yen, but the company plans to sell at a regular price of up to 418 yen, the local press.
"The meat is red and the superb quality of fat is very good," said Kimura. "It's very delicious. The flavor is unbeatable."
A Hong Kong owner of a restaurant tuna sushi purchased last year record, and Kimura added. "I wanted to win the best tuna to Japanese customers, not abroad, you can enjoy it"
Red is usually the most expensive fish available at Tsukiji.
Emiko Misumi, a 44-year-old, who tested a piece, said: "This tuna is very fat and very tasty."
"He was sweet even without sugar either. It was a very delicate sweet flavor," said another woman customer Noriko Nakai, 63.
Decades of overfishing have seen global tuna stocks crash, leading some Western countries calling for a ban on catching bluefin tuna endangered.
Japan consumes three-quarters of the global catch of bluefin tuna, prized sushi ingredient known in Japan as "kuro maguro" (tuna black) and called by connoisseurs of sushi in the "black diamond" because of its scarcity.
"You know, the good things of this kind are appreciated around the world," said 22-year-old male customer Hirotaka Higurashi when asked about the issue of overfishing. "There is nothing we can do about it.
The 269 kilograms (592 pounds) of fish - caught off the coast of northern Aomori prefecture in Japan - stood at 56.49 million yen striking ($ 736.500), when the hammer came in the first auction of the year.
The figure dwarfs the previous record of 32.49 million yen paid in last year's inaugural auction at Tsukiji, a huge labor market is in many tourist itineraries in Tokyo.
Winner of Thursday was Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the company that runs the popular sushi Zanmai chain.
In about 210,000 yen per kilogram, a single slice of sushi can cost as much as 5,000 yen, but the company plans to sell at a regular price of up to 418 yen, the local press.
"The meat is red and the superb quality of fat is very good," said Kimura. "It's very delicious. The flavor is unbeatable."
A Hong Kong owner of a restaurant tuna sushi purchased last year record, and Kimura added. "I wanted to win the best tuna to Japanese customers, not abroad, you can enjoy it"
Red is usually the most expensive fish available at Tsukiji.
Emiko Misumi, a 44-year-old, who tested a piece, said: "This tuna is very fat and very tasty."
"He was sweet even without sugar either. It was a very delicate sweet flavor," said another woman customer Noriko Nakai, 63.
Decades of overfishing have seen global tuna stocks crash, leading some Western countries calling for a ban on catching bluefin tuna endangered.
Japan consumes three-quarters of the global catch of bluefin tuna, prized sushi ingredient known in Japan as "kuro maguro" (tuna black) and called by connoisseurs of sushi in the "black diamond" because of its scarcity.
"You know, the good things of this kind are appreciated around the world," said 22-year-old male customer Hirotaka Higurashi when asked about the issue of overfishing. "There is nothing we can do about it.
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