The most expensive piece of seafood at Tokyo’s largest fish market sold for a tonne at auction on the opening day of business.
The nearly 525-pound giant bluefin tuna was purchased by the Yamayuki seafood wholesaler and sushi chain for nearly $800,000.
Yamayuki and the Onodera group’s sushi chain have bought the most expensive fish on the market in the new season for four years in a row.
“If we’re going to do it, we want to win,” Yamayuki president Yukitaka Yamaguchi told a group of reporters who had gathered after the auction.
The next stop for the oversized tuna, caught off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, is Onodera, a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in the upscale Ginza district of the Japanese capital, The Japan Times writes.
While the sky-high price tag for a quarter-ton bluefin doesn’t set any records — it’s actually the fourth-highest sale since record-keeping began in 1999 — it’s the highest price paid for a single tuna at the bustling Toyosu Fish Market since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. .
Tuna sold for more than three times the price of the most expensive fish sold in the first auction of 2023, fueling hopes of a market recovery after the pandemic put downward pressure on fish prices alongside Japan’s tourism and restaurant businesses.
The massive 525-pound bluefin tuna sold at auction at Tokyo’s largest fish market for nearly $800,000. ZUMAPRESS.com The winning bid was made by seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and sushi chain operator Onodera group, a team that has won the auction for four consecutive years. ZUMAPRESS.com The huge bluefin is destined to be served as sushi at Onodera, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district. ZUMAPRESS.com
The record was set in 2019 when Kiyoshi “Tuna King” Kimura, owner of a chain of Japanese sushi restaurants, paid 333.6 million yen ($3.1 million) for a 613-pound bluefin at an annual auction, later admitting to reporters that he paid five times the price. he had expected.
“The tuna looked very tasty and very fresh, but I think I did too much,” Kimura said outside the market after the 2019 auction.
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