Fresh Tuna Sells for Record $55,700
If you have ever wondered how the price of sushi can get so high, this might help explain.
Recently, the world’s largest fish market in Tokyo, Japan had it’s first auction of 2008. At the Tsukiji market about 2,904 bluefin tuna were sold, including one that set the record for most expensive.
A Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner paid a record 55,700 dollars for a huge bluefin tuna that was caught off Japan’s northern region of Aomori.
Japan, who consume about 25% of the all tuna caught, is moving towards limiting bluefin tuna fishing in its own waters in a bid to help protect the species from extinction.
By Sun Tzu on 06-01-2008
Comment by Magget
January 6th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
first post
Comment by darkwing duck
January 6th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Dam that a lot of money for some fish that i can find in can.
Comment by Made in DNA
January 6th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
That’s just it. You CAN’T find it in a can. It’s fresh and it probably weighed something close to 1000 lbs. Wiki it: pacific bluefin tuna.
But yes, you are right, it is extravagent. Overly so. And it is likely that the restaurant will make major bank by passing the costs on to customers.
Comment by mneill
January 7th, 2008 at 9:37 am
lol wow you got the first comment ..
Comment by MC
January 7th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Should have kept the tuna alive and charge for viewing in one of the fish tanks at the restaurant. That would attract more customers.
Comment by Andrew Steiger
January 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
They will probably deep freeze it and sell another as the same, good buisiness sense here. As for the future, let’s all start singing the old fish songs, you know which I mean. For all those fish that are no longer available because they are gone, and start on the Tuna fish song for our children to remember them by.
Comment by Harold
January 10th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
My Japanese friend tells me that it’s both a tradition and good luck for the first bids of the year at the fish market to be extraordinarily high. The restaurant expects that big generosity early in January will lead to big revenue in the year to come.
The Japanese stock market usually works the same way, with investors going a little wild at the beginning of January. Not this year… first time in decades the Nikkei went down on the first day of the year.
Comment by dave
January 16th, 2008 at 1:14 am
last post
Comment by Stakhanov
January 16th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Yes it is extravagant. So is the $1000 chocolate sunday, and the $5000 hamburger.
The thing is, it will attract a huge amount of publicity and attention, and all the rich and ritzy sushi goers of Hong Kong just found their new trendy joint for the next few months. They will also pay through the nose for the pleasure.
Comment by Miranda
January 17th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Yeah, I read about a $1000 brownie. Gold dust was even sprinkled ever so lightly on the top.