Tuna sold for 9.6 mil. yen at 1st auction in Tokyo

Tuna sold for 9.6 mil. yen at 1st auction in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market held the new year's first auction of tuna Jan. 5 with a 128.4-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, sold for an eight-year high of 9.63 million yen due to the small catch of the tuna in rough seas at the end of 2008.

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