Giant bluefin tuna fetches 20 million yen in first auction in Japan

Wholesalers look at the bluefin tuna that they bought at the first auction of 2021 at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. The tuna was sold at 20.84 million yen (US$202,111). - Kyodo News via AP

TOKYO, Jan 5 (dpa): A huge bluefin tuna was sold for 20.8 million yen (US$202,000) in Tokyo on Tuesday in the first auction of this year at the city's main fish market.

It was far lower than the highest price of last year - 193 million yen - and the first auction came while Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike repeatedly urged its residents to refrain from non-essential and non-urgent outings in order to curb coronavirus infections.