Bluefin Tuna Sells for Record $55,700 in Japan
In Tokyo, Japan, a Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner, at the world’s largest fish market, paid a record $55,700 dollars for a huge bluefin tuna, weighing 276-kilogram (607-pound). The auction bidder was one of many winners in the first auction of 2008 at the Tsukiji market, where approximately 2,904 bluefin tuna were sold.
