sold fish giant tuna, with blue fins, more than 37 thousand dollars (4 million yen), on Monday, in an auction is the first of its kind in the New Year market for fish in Tokyo, where Japan is facing increasing pressure to cut endangered fish consumption extinction.
Official "Tsukiji" fish market and said that tuna fish weighing 180.4 kilograms, was caught in the northern region of Aomori, sold about $ 37.480.
Nevertheless, the price of these fish is low in comparison with 2013 prices, which saw the sale of tuna fish in the amount of 155 million yen (about $ 1.2 million) for the popular restaurant chain in Hong Kong.
The winner, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the restaurant chain Sushi, was surprised to win the auction at a price of "low", pointing out that the fish bought by one of the best types of fish
They attributed the recent decline in the price of tuna reports because of the "lack of competition offers, and the current abundance of this type of fish in the waters off the northern coast of Japan, a major site for the tuna."
Japan is the largest consumer of bluefin tuna in the world, the auction was held amid claims of Japan to stop hunting this type of endangered fish.
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