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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

The year's first tuna auction is held at Tokyo's Toyosu market on Jan. 5, 2023. Video taken on Jan. 5, 2023, shows a 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 36.04 million yen ($273,000) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef shows freshly cut bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chefs carve up a bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef shows freshly cut bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef looks at a bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef shows a piece of bluefin tuna meat in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BLUEFIN TUNA-AUCTION

(230105) -- TOKYO, Jan. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A chef cleans a bluefin tuna in a shop in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 5, 2023. A 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off the northern Japan town of Oma, Aomori Prefecture, fetched 36.04 million yen (about 271,500 U.S. dollars) in the first auction of 2023 at Toyosu market early on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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New Year tuna auction in Tokyo

Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2023, shows a 212-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma in Aomori Prefecture that fetched 36.04 million yen ($273,000) at the year's first tuna auction at Tokyo's Toyosu market.

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Fishermen on Japan's Oma coast dream of hitting tuna jackpot

Photo taken Jan. 5, 2017, shows a 212-kilogram Oma tuna that fetched 74.2 million yen ($650,000) at the first auction of this year at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tuna fetches 74 mil. yen at possible final Tsukiji New Year's auction

Customers prepare to eat sushi topped with bluefin tuna slices at a restaurant operated by Kiyomura Corp. in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2017, after the company's president, Kiyoshi Kimura, purchased a 212-kilogram tuna for 74.2 million yen (around $632,000) or 350,000 yen per kilogram during a New Year's auction at the famed Tsukiji fish market. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tuna fetches 74 mil. yen at possible final Tsukiji New Year's auction

Kiyoshi Kimura (R), president of Kiyomura Corp., operator of the Sushizanmai sushi restaurant chain, cuts a 212-kilogram bluefin tuna at his main sushi restaurant in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2017, after he successfully purchased it for 74.2 million yen (around $632,000) during an auction at the famed Tsukiji fish market. It may have been the final New Year's auction at the fish market before its relocation to a new site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tuna fetches 74 mil. yen at possible final Tsukiji New Year's auction

Kiyoshi Kimura (C back), president of Kiyomura Corp., the operator of the Sushizanmai sushi restaurant chain, poses on Jan. 5, 2017, with the bluefin tuna he successfully purchased in what may be the final New Year's auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market before its relocation to a new site. The 212-kilogram tuna fetched 74.2 million yen (around $632,000), or 350,000 yen per kilogram. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo