<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="6932734" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Toyosu">Toyosu</keyword> Market in <keyword id="4741" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo">Tokyo</keyword> is the largest fish market in the world, and is home to world-famous <keyword id="377694" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="tuna">tuna</keyword> auctions.</li><li>Expert bidders flock to the market each morning for a chance to buy top-tier tuna, sometimes paying as much as $3 million.</li><li>We followed a veteran tuna bidder, who explained the ins and outs of tuna auctions and his industry's role in marine sustainability. </li></ul>

Inside the largest fish market in the world, where a single tuna can sell for up to $3 million

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5c30ba732ab31e5e2f19b403-1200/bluefin tuna record.jpg" border="0" alt="bluefin tuna record" data-mce-source="KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="President of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, Kiyoshi Kimura (R), displays a 278kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant in Tokyo on January 5, 2019." /><p class="source"><span>KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">President of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, Kiyoshi Kimura (R), displays a 278kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant in Tokyo on January 5, 2019.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>A 278 kg bluefin tuna sold for a world record $3 million at Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market on Saturday.</li><li>The buyer, Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain owner Kiyoshi Kimura, has won the auction in the past.</li><li>He told Japanese TV: "The quality of the tuna I bought is the best."</li><li>However, he admitted he was suprised by the price, adding: "I think I did too much."</li></ul><p>TOKYO (AP) - A 612-pound (278 kilogram) bluefin tuna sold for a record 333.6 million yen ($3 million) in the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo's famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city's waterfront.</p><p>The winning bid for the prized but threatened species at the predawn auction was more than double the 2013 annual New Year auction.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5c30bb38e04d6273675ec723-1200/tokyo fish market.jpg" border="0" alt="tokyo fish market" data-mce-source="The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Traders at the year's first tuna auction at the Toyosu fish market on January 05, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan." data-link="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/traders-at-the-years-first-tuna-auction-at-the-toyosu-fish-news-photo/1090034768" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/traders-at-the-years-first-tuna-auction-at-the-toyosu-fish-news-photo/1090034768">The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images</a></span></p><p class="caption">Traders at the year's first tuna auction at the Toyosu fish market on January 05, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>It was paid by Kiyomura Corp., whose owner Kiyoshi Kimura runs the Sushi Zanmai chain. Kimura has often won the annual auction in the past.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tokyo-japan-tsukiji-fish-market-photos-tour-2018-1?r=UK&amp;IR=T" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside the world's biggest fish market, where a single tuna can sell for millions of dollars</a></em></p><p>Japanese broadcaster NHK showed a beaming Kimura saying that he was surprised by the high price of tuna this year.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5c30bb87630d9b44ff3ef246-1200/gettyimages-1077377828.jpg" border="0" alt="Kiyoshi Kimura" data-mce-source="KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, tastes a fillet of a 278kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant in Tokyo on January 5, 2019." data-link="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/kiyoshi-kimura-president-of-sushi-restaurant-chain-sushi-news-photo/1077377828" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/kiyoshi-kimura-president-of-sushi-restaurant-chain-sushi-news-photo/1077377828">KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images</a></span></p><p class="caption">Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, tastes a fillet of a 278kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant in Tokyo on January 5, 2019.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/bluefin-tuna-sells-for-25m-world-record-at-tokyo-fish-market-11599295" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Sky News</a>, Kimura admitted he may have been a bit carried away by the sale.</p><p>"The tuna looks so tasty and very fresh, but I think I did too much," he said.</p><p>"I expected it would be between 30 million and 50 million yen, or 60 million yen at the highest, but it ended up five times more."</p><p>Still, he said: "The quality of the tuna I bought is the best."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5c30bbcd0df17659000df4b4-1200/kiyoshi kimura bluefin tuna.jpg" border="0" alt="kiyoshi kimura bluefin tuna" data-mce-source="The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Kiyoshi Kimura (C), president of Kiyomura Corp, cuts the bluefin tuna on which he bid a record 333.6 million yen at the first tuna auction of the New Year on January 5, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan." data-link="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/kiyoshi-kimura-president-of-kiyomura-corp-cuts-the-bluefin-news-photo/1090034550" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/kiyoshi-kimura-president-of-kiyomura-corp-cuts-the-bluefin-news-photo/1090034550">The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images</a></span></p><p class="caption">Kiyoshi Kimura (C), president of Kiyomura Corp, cuts the bluefin tuna on which he bid a record 333.6 million yen at the first tuna auction of the New Year on January 5, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The tuna was caught off northern Japan's Aomori prefecture and sold on Saturday.</p><p>The market, which opened in October, replaces the old Tsukiji market, one of Japan's most popular tourist destinations.</p>

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