Yukitaka Yamaguchi, the president of Yamayuki, an intermediary wholesaler at the Toyosu fish market, paid the most at last year’s first auction, with a bid of 20.84 million yen for a 208.4 ...
A bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen ($270,000), the top price at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on Jan. 5.