Time to hop on a boat to the Pacific and quit my day job. "Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji market rang in the first auction of 2012 with a record sale when a local sushi company bought a 593-lb. (269 kg) bluefin tuna for over $735,000. Weighing in at roughly $1,247 a pound, that’s the most expensive tuna ever sold at Japan’s largest wholesale fish market, or anywhere else, for that matter, beating last year’s high price by over $260,000.
The giant was caught in Oma in Japan’s northern Aomori prefecture, one of the areas hit in last year’s earthquake and tsunami. It’s also one of Japan’s most important fishing zones. Fishermen up and down the coast of northeast Japan have been struggling since many of their boats were swept to sea and the ports and markets were destroyed in the disasters."
Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/01/05/bluef…
yeah i read that article and it didnt really understand the reason, is it just supposed to be some good luck thing for the japanese?
Tuna from Oma is considered "special" according to Japanese tradition. As well, buying the first catch of the year is generally regarded as good marketing (your reading about it, aren't you?).
Yeah, I think I'm probably gonna avoid mutant fish along the coast of a nuclear disaster.
Good luck catchin that thing
You don't think I could catch that with my 2001 Banjo Minnow set?
Wow, I do wonder if the fish were greatly negatively affected and mutated...thats a big tuna.
That tuna is the perfect size too. If they get larger than that then the price per pound declines pretty dramatically since the tuna is older and quality of meat deteriorates. Nice catch.
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