Bluefin tuna sells for record $3 million in a Tokyo fish auction

The giant fish was purchased by Kiyoshi Kimura, who owns the Sushizanmai sushi restaurant chain.

International News:  A 613-pound bluefin tuna sold for more than $3 million at an action in Tokyo’s new fish market, setting a record, Reuters reports.

The giant fish was purchased by Kiyoshi Kimura, who owns the Sushizanmai sushi restaurant chain.

“The tuna looks so tasty and very fresh, but I think I did too much,” Kimura reportedly said outside the market after his purchase.

“I expected it would be between 30 million ($277,213) and 50 million yen ($462,022), or 60 million yen ($554,426) at the highest, but it ended up five times more,” he said, according to Reuters.

The restaurateur had previously held the record for “”top price paid for a single fish at the new year’s auction” for six consecutive years years until 2017, when another restaurateur bested him.

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