Sushi boss pays RM509,000 for tuna

Monster catch: Kimura unsheathing a long knife for his workers to cut the bluefin tuna at his main restaurant near Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. — AFP

TOKYO: A Japanese sushi boss has paid more than US$117,000 (RM509,000) for a giant bluefin tuna as Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market held its last New Year auction ahead of a much-needed modernisation move.

Bidding stopped at a whopping 14 million yen for the enormous 200kg fish – a threatened species – that was caught off Japan’s northern coast.