Just after 5:00 AM on Friday, the standard New Year’s public sale commenced on the Toyosu Market, signaled by the ringing of a bell.
Bidding was full of life as rows of tuna had been auctioned off.
The most prized “number one tuna,” thought-about a very good luck appeal, weighed 238 kilograms and was caught at Oma Port in Aomori Prefecture. It offered for 114.24 million yen, exceeding final yr’s 36.04 million yen.
The earlier document was set in 2019, through the first public sale after the market’s relocation from Tsukiji to Toyosu, the place a tuna from Oma fetched 333.6 million yen.
Meanwhile, on January 4, Katsuura Fishing Port in Nachikatsuura Town, Wakayama Prefecture, identified for having Japan’s largest catch of contemporary tuna, additionally held its first tuna market of the yr.
Fishing boats working off the coast of the Kumano Sea introduced in about 50 tons of tuna that morning, a catch typical for this time of yr. Three kinds of tuna had been lined up available in the market, the place patrons had been keenly assessing the standard through the first public sale of the yr. The tuna, packed in ice, is primarily shipped to the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe space.