Bluefin tuna sells for record $3.2 million at year-opening auction at Tokyo fish market
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Key Points:
- A 535-pound bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market during the first auction of 2026.
- The winning bid was placed by Kiyomura Corp., owned by Kiyoshi Kimura of the Sushi Zanmai chain, who broke his own previous record set in 2019.
- The tuna, caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan, is highly prized for its quality and cost approximately $6,060 per pound.
- Kimura stated the purchase was partly for good luck and that he could not resist buying such a high-quality fish despite the soaring price.
- Pacific bluefin tuna stocks, once threatened by climate
