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This Is What A $70,000 Tuna Looks Like

Michael KelleyJan 6, 2014, 17:48 IST

This 507-lb. tuna caught off northern Japan sold for 7.36 million yen ($70,324 ) at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on January 5, 2014, making it the highest price paid at the market's first tuna auction of the year.

Check out this massive fish:

REUTERS/Yuya Shino Kiyomura Co's President Kiyoshi Kimura (C), who runs a chain of sushi restaurants, poses for pictures with a 230 kg (507 lbs) bluefin tuna at his sushi restaurant outside Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo January 5, 2014.

Last year a different the owner of a different Japanese sushi restaurant chain paid $1.76 million for a 489-lb. bluefin tuna.