The year's first tuna auction starts in Tokyo

The year's first tuna auction starts in Tokyo

Brokers are busy bidding on tuna Jan. 5 in the first auction of 1999 at Tokyo Central Wholesale Market, in Tsukiji, Tokyo. The auction started at 5 a.m. The highest bid of day was the 3.82 million yen paid for a 191-kilogram tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture.

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