Tuna fetches record $3.1 mil. at new market's New Year auction

A bluefin tuna fetched a record 333.6 million yen ($3.1 million) at the first New Year's auction held at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market following the market's relocation from nearby Tsukiji last year.Costing 1.2 million yen per kilogram, the total price of the 278-kilogram tuna from Oma, Aomori Prefecture, is the highest paid at the metropolitan central market since 1999, the first year for which such records are available.It is customary for bidders to pay extra at the year's first auction, and particularly this time because it was the first such auction held at the new market that opened in O…READ FULL ARTICLE