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Blue tuna seriously smooted in the Tokyo Tsukizi market: $ 37,000 for fish
Blue tuna weighing 180 kilograms was sold at the first auction in the famous wholesale fish market in Tokyo in Tokyo for 4.51 million yen (37.480 thousand dollars), Yahoo News reports with reference to AFP.
The customer of the tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Aomori Prefecture, as last year, was the owner of a large Tokyo network of Kiyomura restaurants Kiyoshi Kimur. He is surprised that he managed to buy a huge fish at a price of $ 200 per kilogram - according to him, this is a low price. The quality of the cook is satisfied: "This tuna is excellent both in form and in content."
Note that a year ago the blue tuna really cost Kimura much more. In 2013, a bidding record was set in the Tsukyki market: 222-killer tuna was sold for 155.4 million yen ($ 1.8 million at the rate at that time).
The current price of a blue tuna can be perceived in Japan as a bad sign. AsRIA Novosti explains, every year in early January the first auction of tuna is held on the market, which, as a rule, put the largest specimens of fish. In Japan, there is a sign that the first auction determines how the situation in the fishing industry of the country will develop and in the economy as a whole. At the same time, today's transaction is greatly inferior to the fact that it was concluded in the past and 2012 .
AFP notes that trading in the Tsukiji market once again provoke conversations about the fate of the Blue Tunets, which can threaten extinction. And TASS calls this auction annual fun for the elite of Tokyo restaurateurs.
Auction -auction trading in the Tsukiji market is a colorful sight. For a long time, travel agencies included them with great success in the list of visits for foreign tourists. However, due to the bad manners of foreigners who not only photographed the process, but sometimes interfered with the auction, trying to break into the front rows and even touch the fish with their hands, the market administration in 2008 banned visiting trading tourists.