Tuna goes for cut-price 20 mil. yen at Tokyo's New Year auction

A bluefin tuna fetched 20.84 million yen ($202,000) on Tuesday at the New Year's auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market, a price far lower than in previous years as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic weighs on the restaurant industry.The price for the 208-kilogram tuna, caught by a vessel operating out of a port in Oma, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is well below the previous year's 193.2 million yen paid by a Tokyo-based sushi restaurant chain operator.A 278-kg bluefin tuna fetched a record 333.6 million yen in the New Year auction in 2019 when it was held for the first time in…READ FULL ARTICLE