TOKYO / NEW YORK -- Fishermen in Oma, northern Japan, were celebrating on Friday as one of their prized bluefin tuna fetched the most money during 2018's first auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market.
It was the seventh straight year that the town reeled in the year's most expensive bluefin, this one costing 36.45 million yen ($323,000), or 90,000 yen per kilogram. Although exorbitant, the price was only about half that of last year's winner, and less than a quarter of the record 155 million yen paid for one of the town's bluefin in 2013.
