The owner of an international sushi restaurant has shelled out over USD 300,000 for a single bluefin tuna and said that he was very happy with the result. It is more than Rs 2 crore in Indian currency.
The bid was made at the final New Year’s auction at Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market on Friday. However, the price was just over half that of last year’s winning bid of 72 million yen and well below the record 155 million yen paid in 2013, state news reports.
The winning bid was made by Hiroshi Onodera, the president of LEOC Co. Ltd which owns the “Ginza Onodera” restaurant chain.
Onodera paid 36.45 million yen, which converts to USD 323,195, for a 405-kg premium Pacific bluefin tuna. This means that the fish came at a steep price of around 90,000 yen per kg.
