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    Threatened Bluefin Tuna Sells For $3 Million In Tokyo Market

    Sushi chain owner Kiyoshi Kimura purchased the 612-pound Pacific bluefin tuna at auction. Conservationists are alarmed about the fate of the species.
    by Francesca Paris Jan 05, 2019 2 minutes
    Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi Zanmai, displays a 612-pound bluefin tuna at one of his restaurants. The company he runs paid a record $3.1 million for the popular but threatened fish.

    The 612-pound tuna had to be wheeled into its new owner's sushi restaurant on a low platform, its mouth agape.

    Sushi chain owner Kiyoshi Kimura purchased the immense Pacific bluefin tuna in an auction on Saturday at a Tokyo fish market. The fish sold.

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