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Tuna Fish Caught By Eli Saban, Ashdod, Israel
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Japan's Fisheries Research Agency counters that Australian and New Zealand tuna fishing companies under-report their total catches of southern bluefin tuna and ignore internationally mandated total allowable catch totals.
In 2010, a bluefin tuna weighing 232 kilograms (511.47 pounds) was sold at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market for 16.28 million yen ($US 175,000).
In early 2011, a new record was set at 32.49 million yen for a bluefin tuna weighing 754-pounds (342-kilograms), during an auction in Tsukiji Market, Tokyo. This equates to 95,000 yen per kilogram.
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