A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.1 million for a giant tuna on Saturday as Tokyo's new fish market, which replaced the world-famous Tsukiji late last year, held its first predawn new year's auction. Bidding stopped at a whopping 333.6 million yen for the enormous 278 kilos fish- an endangered species- that was caught off Japan's nothern coast. Self-styled "Tuna King" Kiyoshi Kimura paid the top price, which doubled the previous record of 155 million yen from 2013.

Japanese tuna nets $3.1 M at auction. (2019, January 7). The Philippine Star, p. A21.