Tag: blue-fin

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 06:40 UTC

  All time record price for a 296 kilos blue-fin in Tokyo market: 712.000 dollars

  

  A deep-pocketed restaurateur has paid more than 700.000 dollars for a tuna at Japan's Tsukiji fish market, smashing the record for a single blue-fin. Bidding on the 269kg fish, caught off the coast of Japan's northern Aomori prefecture, stood at an eye-popping 711.864 dollars when the hammer came down in the first auction of the year.