Tokyo's Toyosu market holds first tuna auction of 2025

Traders have started bidding at the first tuna auction of 2025 at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market. The top item fetched the second highest price on record. The lively auction began with a bell shortly after local time 5 a.m. on Sunday. Bids were made for raw and frozen tuna from across Japan and around the world.

The top item was a 276-kilogram bluefin tuna unloaded at the port of Oma in the northern prefecture of Aomori. A trader bought the fish for 207 million yen. That is the second highest since comparable data became available in 1999. The highest bid on record is 333.6 million yen, or about 2.1 million dollars, marked in 2019.