TOKYO -- A bluefin tuna weighing 276 kg sold for 193.2 million yen ($1.79 million) at the New Year's auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market on Sunday. It is the second-highest amount paid for a single tuna at the market since 1999.
The price for the bluefin tuna, which came from Oma, Aomori Prefecture, works out to 700,000 yen per kilogram.
