A tuna red was sold this Friday for 114 million yen (about 787 thousand dollars) at the traditional first auction of the year at the Toyosu market, in Tokyofourth highest price in its history.

The price paid for fish weighing 238 kilograms That’s three times more than what was paid last year for a 212-kilogram example that sold for 36.04 million yen (about $273,000).

this Thursday This is the fourth highest price as records were kept in 1999, the 100 million yen ($690,000) barrier was broken for the first time in four years.

Yamayuki, a well-known wholesale intermediary based in Tokyo, and the Ginza Onodera chain, which has locations in the Japanese capital and branches in China and the United States, They made the highest joint bid for the tuna.caught in the waters near the port of Oma in Aomori Prefecture (northern Japan), where the best sushi specimens in the world are said to swim.

This is the fourth year in a row that both companies have jointly applied for a copy.

“I was worried about which tuna we should bet on, but freshness and good color were the deciding factors. “Japanese tuna and sushi attract a lot of attention from people around the world, and this motivates fishermen due to the high prices they receive,” Yukitaka Yamaguchi, president of the Yamayuki wholesale company, said in statements reproduced by the state channel. NHC.

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During the auction too a minute of silence was observed in memory of the victims of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake on the west coast of central Japan this Monday, which has already left 92 people dead and 242 missing.

The auction record for tuna is still held by bluefin tuna, which sold for 333.6 million yen (about 2.52 million dollars) at the first auction of 2019, which took place in Toyosu after the auction was moved there from its previous location in the nearby Tsukiji district.

In the last 15 years, the first auction of the year reached astronomical figures for the best works, because many saw it as an opportunity to attract a lot of media attention, which would offset the huge costs of obtaining a product considered “Hatsumomo(the first of the season), which is very attractive to the Japanese consumer. (EFE)