A bluefin tuna sold for $1.3 million at a predawn ... s largest wholesale fish markets — typically reels in eye-watering prices. Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported that the auction began ...

Intermediary wholesalers will turn around and sell the fish to sushi and other restaurants both in Japan and abroad. The bluefin tuna auction ... their eyes were fixated on different ones.

Japan was given an annual quota of 3,684 tons, down by 6 percent from its average catch of the species over the past five years. However, Japan’s total catch of bigeye tuna reached about 33,000 ...

Delegates from 13 countries and regions came together in Hokkaido to discuss the management of Pacific bluefin tuna. As a result of the agreement, Japan's catch quota will increase by more than ...