208kg Bluefin Tuna Sells for Modest $202,600 USD at Tokyo's Toyosu Fish Market

Tokyo's New Year's tuna auction has just passed, and with it came the sale of a 208-kilogram bluefin tuna for ¥20.84 million JPY (approximately $202,580 USD). What's significant about this price is that historically, auction prices for bluefin tuna fetch much higher closing prices, like 2019's ¥333.6 million JPY ($3.1 million USD) 278-kilogram bluefin tuna sold at Tsukiji - or roughly $11,151 USD per kg versus last week's $974 USD.The lower price is not indicative of a lower quality fish but r...