‘Fat as a Cow’: Motorcycle-Sized Bluefin Tuna Sells for $1.3M in Tokyo Auction

A bluefin tuna sold for 207 million yen (around $1.3 million) at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on Sunday, the second-highest price ever recorded since the auction started collecting data in 1999.

Michelin-starred sushi chain operator, Onodera Group, and seafood wholesaler Yamayuki co-purchased the 608-pound (275 kilogram) Bluefin.

The fisherman who caught the motorcycle-sized tuna, 73-year-old Masahiro Takeuchi, told Japan news outlet, KYODO News, that the fish was “as fat as a cow.”

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