However, they missed out on the highest bid on record ... bluefin tuna: Pacific (Thunnus orientalis), Southern (Thunnus maccoyii), and Atlantic (Thunnus thynnus), the latter of which is the largest.

The annual tuna auction ... for a 278 kilogram bluefin in 2019, as the fish market was moved from its traditional Tsukiji area to a modern facility in nearby Toyosu. The record bid was made ...

The highest-priced bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year was 333.6 million yen, set in 2019, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government, which has kept records since 1999. Last year ...

"So, that was my personal best day," he said. Chaprales said his father died two years ago fighting a giant bluefin tuna, and he feels he has "big shoes to fill." "For that to be the last thing ...

“The current record for a Pacific bluefin tuna caught on a 24kg line is 197.5kg, and we estimate that fish at 250kg, so it would have smashed the world record for sure,” he said. Further ...