TOKYO (AP) — Sushi restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid 7.36 million yen (about $70,000) for a 507-pound (230-kilogram) bluefin tuna in the year's celebratory first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji market on Sunday, just 5 percent of what he paid a year earlier despite signs that the species is in serious decline. Kimura's record winning bid last year
Price Of Bluefin Tuna Nosedives At Tokyo Auction
Despite overfishing and growing worldwide taste for the fish, bluefin prices are a fraction of what they were last year.