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Published January 05, 2012, 12:00 AM

Pricy tuna


Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., center left, cuts a bluefin at his Sushi Zanmai restaurant near Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. The bluefin tuna caught off northeastern Japan fetched a record 56.49 million yen, or about $736,000, Thursday in the first auction of the year at the fish market. The tuna was caught off Oma in Aomori prefecture and just north of the coast that was battered by the March 11 tsunami. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Read the article: Single fish-market bluefin tuna fetches record $736,000 in Tokyo