Over 4,000 cups of cooked puffer fish served

Over 4,000 cups of cooked puffer fish served

A total of 4,432 cups of fugu cooked in a 3.5-meter hot pot is served to visitors during a festival in Shimonoseki in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi on May 3, 2025, recognized by Guinness World Records as the most cups of the puffer fish served.

Underwater Life in Philippines

Underwater Life in Philippines

Puffer fish (Tetraodontidae) on a reef in Dauin, Negros, Philippines on February 2025. Photo by Christophe Geyres/ABACAPRESS.COM

Underwater Life in Philippines

Underwater Life in Philippines

Bennett's Sharpnose Puffer, Canthigaster bennetti on a reef in Dauin, Negros, Philippines on February 2025. Photo by Christophe Geyres/ABACAPRESS.COM

Underwater Life in Philippines

Underwater Life in Philippines

Bennett's Sharpnose Puffer, Canthigaster bennetti on a reef in Dauin, Negros, Philippines on February 2025. Photo by Christophe Geyres/ABACAPRESS.COM

Underwater Life in Philippines

Underwater Life in Philippines

Blackspotted Puffer fish on a reef in Dauin, Negros, Philippines on February 2025. Photo by Christophe Geyres/ABACAPRESS.COM

Underwater Life in Philippines

Underwater Life in Philippines

Yellow Blackspotted Puffer on a reef in Dauin, Negros, Philippines on February 2025. Photo by Christophe Geyres/ABACAPRESS.COM

Year's first puffer fish auction in western Japan

Year's first puffer fish auction in western Japan

Fugu are sorted ahead of the season's first auction of the puffer fish at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Sept. 26, 2024.

Year's first puffer fish auction in western Japan

Year's first puffer fish auction in western Japan

The season's first fugu auction is held at a market in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, in the early hours of Sept. 26, 2024.

PM Kishida shows off dish of tiger puffer fish sashimi

PM Kishida shows off dish of tiger puffer fish sashimi

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) shows off a large dish of sashimi made from naturally bred tiger puffer fish at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2024, during a courtesy call from a Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture-based group dealing in the delicacy.

Japan PM Kishida tastes tiger puffer fish

Japan PM Kishida tastes tiger puffer fish

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) tastes sashimi made from naturally bred tiger puffer fish at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2024, along with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, during a courtesy call from a Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture-based group dealing in the delicacy.

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Takes A Walk - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a pink North Face puffer while out in New York City, NY, USA on December 6, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a brown puffer jacket as she walks her dog Colombo in New York City, NY, USA on November 21, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARImages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a brown puffer jacket as she walks her dog Colombo in New York City, NY, USA on November 21, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARImages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a brown puffer jacket as she walks her dog Colombo in New York City, NY, USA on November 21, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARImages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a brown puffer jacket as she walks her dog Colombo in New York City, NY, USA on November 21, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARImages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a brown puffer jacket as she walks her dog Colombo in New York City, NY, USA on November 21, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARImages/ABACAPRESS.COM

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski Out - NYC

Emily Ratajkowski wears a brown puffer jacket as she walks her dog Colombo in New York City, NY, USA on November 21, 2023. Photo by Bauer-Griffin/INSTARImages/ABACAPRESS.COM

66-cm-long tiger puffer fish

66-cm-long tiger puffer fish

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A researcher measures the length of a tiger puffer fish at the prefectural fisheries research center in the city of Yamaguchi on May 9, 2012. The center said the same day that the female fish, which was captured off Yamaguchi Prefecture, was 66 centimeters long and weighed 6.1 kilograms.

Tora-fugu now can be raised in a tank of fresh water

Tora-fugu now can be raised in a tank of fresh water

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Japanese delicacy tora-fugu is a species of puffer fish that lives in sea water. Now, a research team at Okayama University of Science Professional Training College in Okayama Prefecture has succeeded breeding them in fresh water. The trick, the researchers there say, is to add a small amount of electrolytes into the water. The taste of fresh water-raised tora-fugu, the students involved in the project say, is ''really tasty.''

New millennium's 1st globefish auction held in Shimonoseki

New millennium's 1st globefish auction held in Shimonoseki

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Fish brokers stick their hands in a cloth bag, a traditional method of bidding on torafugu globefish, at the year's first auction of the fish at the Haedomari fish market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Jan. 4. Market officials said the globefish, a kind of puffer fish often served as sashimi, in hot pots and fried, is selling for 23,000 yen per kilogram, down 5,000 yen from a year ago.

Tora-fugu now can be raised in a tank of fresh water

Tora-fugu now can be raised in a tank of fresh water

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Japanese delicacy tora-fugu is a species of puffer fish that lives in sea water. Now, a research team at Okayama University of Science Professional Training College in Okayama Prefecture has succeeded breeding them in fresh water. The trick, the researchers there say, is to add a small amount of electrolytes into the water. The taste of fresh water-raised tora-fugu, the students involved in the project say, is ''really tasty.'' (Kyodo)

Baby tiger puffers released into Osaka Bay in first attempt

Baby tiger puffers released into Osaka Bay in first attempt

Hirotaka Tsujimura, a researcher at the Osaka prefectural government's Research Institute of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, releases tiger puffer fry into Osaka Bay off Kaizuka, western Japan, on July 1, 2015, in the first attempt to do so in the area. They grow to be adult fish in about two years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

66-cm-long tiger puffer fish

66-cm-long tiger puffer fish

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A researcher measures the length of a tiger puffer fish at the prefectural fisheries research center in the city of Yamaguchi on May 9, 2012. The center said the same day that the female fish, which was captured off Yamaguchi Prefecture, was 66 centimeters long and weighed 6.1 kilograms. (Kyodo)

Ecological Intelligent Fishery

Ecological Intelligent Fishery

Oxygen equipment is used to increase oxygen for puffer fish in intelligent fishery breeding workshop. On March 23, 2021, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China.

Ecological Intelligent Fishery

Ecological Intelligent Fishery

A staff member works in an intelligent workshop for puffer fish culture in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China on March 23, 2021.

Tiger puffer farm

Tiger puffer farm

Photo taken at a fish farm in Shizukuishi, in northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture, in December 2018 shows a tiger puffer cultivated in hot spring water. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan PM Abe tastes tiger puffer fish

Japan PM Abe tastes tiger puffer fish

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tastes tiger puffer fish at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2017, as he received a courtesy call from a Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture-based group dealing in the delicacy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

New millennium's 1st globefish auction held in Shimonoseki

New millennium's 1st globefish auction held in Shimonoseki

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Fish brokers stick their hands in a cloth bag, a traditional method of bidding on torafugu globefish, at the year's first auction of the fish at the Haedomari fish market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Jan. 4. Market officials said the globefish, a kind of puffer fish often served as sashimi, in hot pots and fried, is selling for 23,000 yen per kilogram, down 5,000 yen from a year ago.