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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jan 7, 2019, 04:17 PM Jan 2019

Bluefin goes for $3 million at 1st 2019 sale at Tokyo market

TOKYO — A 612-pound (278-kilogram) bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million yen ($3 million) at the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city's waterfront.

The winning bid for the prized but threatened species at the predawn auction Saturday was more than double the 2013 annual New Year auction.

It was paid by Kiyomura Corp., whose owner, Kiyoshi Kimura, runs the Sushi Zanmai chain. Kimura has often won the annual auction in the past.

Japanese broadcaster NHK showed a beaming Kimura saying that he was surprised by the high price of tuna this year. But he added, "The quality of the tuna I bought is the best."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bluefin-goes-3-million-1st-2019-sale-tokyo-market-n955101

I guess when something's threatened it doesn't come cheap.

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Bluefin goes for $3 million at 1st 2019 sale at Tokyo market (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
Apparently it was "well aged" and had an aroma that could Blues Heron Jan 2019 #1
As I posted in the Saturday LBN about this, that's over $5000 per pound. n/t OnlinePoker Jan 2019 #2
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