Premium Tuna Sells for over $100,000!

If you think the prices are high at the grocery store for a can of tuna, this recent news item will definitely shock you. Two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction on Monday, several times the average price and the highest in years. The 282-pound premium tuna caught off the northern coast of Oma fetched 9.63 million yen or $104,400 U.S. dollars. That's $370.00 per pound!