It is the second highest price paid at the opening auction of the year in Tokyo's main fish market since comparable data started being collected in 1999.

An Oma Pacific bluefin tuna, weighing 608 pounds, sold at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market. It’s one of the most expensive tuna fish to be sold in the history of sushi.

Pacific bluefin tuna are the largest species of tuna in the Pacific with adults reaching nearly 10 feet in length and 1,000 pounds. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN ...

There are multiple species of bluefin tuna, including the Pacific bluefin tuna, the Atlantic bluefin tuna and the southern bluefin tuna, according to the International Union for Conservation of ...

But the first one each year typically garners the most jaw-dropping bids. On Sunday, a Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at the market’s first auction of 2025.

A possible world record tuna weighing up to 250kg was hooked off Great Barrier Island by a United States man on just his third-ever fishing trip. In a marathon 8.5-hour battle, the boat crew had to ...

Oma tuna, a form of Pacific bluefin, is highly prized by sushi restaurateurs as the “black diamond” of tuna fish. A diet of squid and fatty saury fish, combined with its colder-water habitat ...