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Mmm $400,000 Tuna Yummy Yummy

13 Jan

A giant bluefin tuna was sold to a wholesaler for a record $396,000 at the first fish auction of the year in Tokyo. The big fishy weighed 752.4 lbs. He (or she) will be cut up by the wholesaler and sold to upscale sushi restaurants in Japan and Hong Kong for about $2,600.00 per pound. That will be one expensive tuna melt, certainly more expensive than: