How Much Is Your Tuna Worth? $736,000?

Vintage blue fin tuna caught off Nova Scotia

Mr. Kimura grinning over his 3/4 million dollar fish.

Un-canned tuna fish (guaranteed dolphin free) can be very, very expensive.  A new record price has been reached for blue fin tuna.  At the Tsukiji fish market's auction yesterday, Kiyoshi Kimura purchased the 593 lb. fish for $736,000.00.  Mr. Kimura is the president of Sushi-Zanmai, a popular chain of sushi restaurants.  A single piece of sushi from the best part of a blue fin tuna can cost up to $24.00.  Mr. Kimura sold pieces of his record fish for $5.45 a piece.  That is quite a deal considering that at cost, each bite sized serving would cost $96.00.