A 600 lb bluefin tuna would normally sell for $15,000.00 to over $3,000,000.
The actual sale price f the 600 lb bluefin tuna also heavily depends on the grade of the bluefin tuna and where it's sold and whether or not it's an everyday wholesale transaction or a ceremonial New Year's auction.
Although rare a 535 pound Pacific Bluefin tuna sold for 3.2 million dollars.
The 3.2 million dollar tuna was bought by a Japanese sushi tycoon named Kiyoshi Kimura.
Kiyoshi Kimura is a Japanese sushi tycoon as well as the owner of the popular sushi restaurant chain called Sushi Zanmai, which is run by Kiyomura Corp.
Kiyoshi Kimura bought the massive 535 pound Pacific Bluefin tuna at the annual New Year's auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market for $3.2 million dollars.
Kiyoshi Kimura is often also called the Tuna King and he has a long history of winning the year's opening auction and previously set similar multimillion dollar records in the year 2019.
Instead of profiting, Kiyoshi Kimura served the record breaking fish to customers at his regular menu prices to celebrate the new year and bring in good fortune.
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a species of tuna in the family Scombridae.
Atlantic bluefin tunas are variously known as the northern bluefin tuna, giant bluefin tuna, and formerly as the tunny.
Atlantic bluefin tunas are native to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.
Bluefin tuna is exceptionally expensive because of its unparalleled buttery texture, strict catch limits designed to prevent overfishing, and the intensive handling required to get it from the ocean to a sushi plate.
Bluefin tuna is highly prized for its rich, melt-in-your-mouth belly fat (called toro), which is highly sought after by high-end sushi restaurants.
The bluefin tuna cannot be bred entirely in captivity and depend on sustainable quotas strictly managed by organizations like the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
Catching a giant fish like the bluefin tuna (weighing up to) often requires vast ocean voyages and immediate, specialized cold-chain processing to preserve its grade.