oo 1 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 56490000 yen How can one fish be worth 56490000 yen? Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 What fish? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Tuna sold for that yesterday, a record amount. Some sushi chain store bought it! Got to wonder how much they make from it! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 A bluefin tuna has been sold for three quarters of a million dollars in Tokyo - a price almost double last year's record sale. The bluefin tuna, prized for making the finest sushi, fetched 56.49m yen ($736,000, £472,125) at Tsukiji fish market's first auction of the year. The winning bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, owner of a sushi restaurant chain. Globally, there is great concern over the species and fishing quotas. The 269kg (593lb) tuna also set a record for price by weight, market official Yutaka Hasegawa said. The total price translates to 210,000 yen ($2,737, £1,755) per kilogram. The tuna was caught off Oma, in Aomori prefecture, north of the coast that was struck by the devastating tsunami last year. Mr Kimura's bid, he told reporters, was an effort to ''liven up Japan'' and help it on the road to recovery. Link to post Share on other sites
hellyer 216 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Not many more posts for me tonight.....................................I'm going fishing Yeah, yeah I know this one's just a baby Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 he'll not fit that into a can! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 You're right Tubby. And that will take a lot of mayonnaise for all those butties as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Globally, there is great concern over the species and fishing quota. I'm glad it said globally. There would be very little concern coming from within Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 no there is concern but its concern that the price is going up and that the food may disappear.....backhanded concern about the fish wellbeing Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 You can keep your fish, I don't eat Bluefin. I'll keep to my sharks fin. Incidentally, that translated to 5000 per piece of sushi. But he'll sell it for only a few hundred. Link to post Share on other sites
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