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Season's first yellowtail auction

The season's first auction of winter yellowtails is held at a fish market in Kanazawa in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on Dec. 2, 2025. A fish weighing 14.5 kilogram was auctioned off for a record-tying 4 million yen ($25,700).

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Season's first yellowtail auction

KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec. 2 Kyodo - Winter yellowtail are displayed at a wholesale market ahead of the season's first auction in Kanazawa in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on Dec. 2, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Season's first yellowtail auction

Winter yellowtail are displayed at a wholesale market ahead of the season's first auction in Kanazawa in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Season's first yellowtail auction

The season's first auction of winter yellowtails is held at a wholesale market in Kanazawa in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on Dec. 2, 2024.

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Japan booth at Seafood Expo Global in Brussels

SENDAI, Japan - Yuko Morimatsu of Rumi Japan (Morimatsu Suisan Reito Co.), based in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, serves samples of farmed yellowtail at the Seafood Expo Global trade fair in Brussels, Belgium, in May 2014.

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Yellowtail fishing area found moving northward

TOKYO, Japan - Yellowtail are seen at a fishing port in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, in this file photo dating from February 2011. Fishing areas for cold-water fish including yellowtail have been moving northward according to a recent study by the University of British Columbia.

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Japan promotes yellowtail dishes in Israel

JERUSALEM, Israel - Seafood company Rumi Japan on Feb. 19, 2013, holds a yellowtail tasting event for Israeli food industry officials at the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to Israel, serving a variety of dishes using the fatty white-fleshed fish, known as "hamachi" in Japan. The company has started exporting frozen yellowtail to Israel.

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Japan promotes yellowtail dishes in Israel

JERUSALEM, Israel - Seafood company Rumi Japan on Feb. 19, 2013, holds a yellowtail tasting event for Israeli food industry officials at the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to Israel, serving a variety of dishes using the fatty white-fleshed fish, known as "hamachi" in Japan. The company has started exporting frozen yellowtail to Israel.

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Catch of yellowtail in Toyoma Pref. jumps 30-fold

TOYAMA, Japan - Buyers take part in an auction of yellowtail at a fish market in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, on Feb. 4, 2011. The number of yellowtail caught off the city along the Sea of Japan coast between December 2010 and January 2011 reached a record 130,774, up 30-fold from the same period a year before.

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Ball-shaped sushi introduced at Milan Expo

Visitors to the Japan Pavilion of the world expo in Milan taste ball-shaped yellowtail sushi from the southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki on Sept. 2, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Catch of yellowtail in Toyoma Pref. jumps 30-fold

TOYAMA, Japan - Buyers take part in an auction of yellowtail at a fish market in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, on Feb. 4, 2011. The number of yellowtail caught off the city along the Sea of Japan coast between December 2010 and January 2011 reached a record 130,774, up 30-fold from the same period a year before. (Kyodo)

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Farmed yellowtail in Japan

Photo taken July 2, 2020, shows yellowtail landed from open sea cages of a fish farm in Kushima in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Farmed yellowtail in Japan

Photo taken July 2, 2020, shows yellowtail landed from open sea cages of a fish farm in Kushima in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan.