# Tuna sells for $3,000,000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256 "2019-01-05T18:34:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/1 "2019-01-05T18:34:57Z")
Probably best to skip the tuna sushi at his place for awhile. > **[Japanese 'Tuna King' pays record $3M for prized bluefin Tuna at famed Tokyo...](https://www.foxnews.com/world/japanese-tuna-king-pays-record-3m-for-prized-bluefin-tuna-at-famed-tokyo-fish-auction)** > > Self-described Japanese "Tuna King" Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record $3 million for a 612-pound (278-kilogram) bluefin tuna at the first new year's first auction in Tokyo on Saturday. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/2 "2019-01-05T18:56:07Z")
Bluefin is soooooo yummy though. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/3 "2019-01-06T10:14:47Z")
Sorry, Charlie. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/4 "2019-01-06T10:48:24Z")
I hope Mr. Kimura remembered to put it in the fridge when he got home. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/5 "2019-01-06T12:43:44Z")
Stupid conspicuous consumption gonna stupid conspicuous consumption, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/6 "2019-01-06T14:03:57Z")
This is from Fox. Fake news? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/7 "2019-01-06T16:23:00Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Probably best to skip the tuna sushi at his place for awhile. > > [Japanese 'Tuna King' pays record $3M for prized bluefin Tuna at famed Tokyo fish auction | Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/world/japanese-tuna-king-pays-record-3m-for-prized-bluefin-tuna-at-famed-tokyo-fish-auction) > > Dennis Yeah, imagine sitting down for dinner at that restaurant with a hankering for a big fat tuna steak\*, too hungry to be concerned about what the actual “market price” is? \*I imagine asking them to cook that tuna would probably get you kicked out, though. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/8 "2019-01-06T17:25:36Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Stupid conspicuous consumption gonna stupid conspicuous consumption, I guess. Sure, but I would not turn down a dinner invitation to his home. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/9 "2019-01-06T17:40:28Z")
I’d estimate that this works out to about $500 per 1oz piece of sushi. I could believe he might conceivably get $50 in Japan. So this is basically a bullshit price that makes no economic sense. I think this is simply a publicity stunt, and the money somehow gets kicked backed to Kiyomura Corp. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/10 "2019-01-06T21:28:05Z")
Maybe they’ll have it taxidermied and hung on the wall. Rig up the jaw and you can sing Karaoke songs with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/11 "2019-01-07T07:04:44Z")
Considering I now know who this guy is (before I even saw on this board), and I’m not even Japanese, I’d say it is pretty cheap world wide publicity to be honest. I think he was paying for that, tuna secondary. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-sells-for-3-000-000/827256/12 "2019-01-07T11:56:05Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > So this is basically a bullshit price that makes no economic sense. I think this is simply a publicity stunt, and the money somehow gets kicked backed to Kiyomura Corp. The BBC said the usual price for such a fish would be $60K and that it’s (a) a publicity stunt and (b) a New Year’s tradition that it’s good luck to get the best fish at the first auction of the year > **[Japan sushi tycoon pays record tuna price](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46767370)** > > Kiyoshi Kimura pays $3.1m (£2.5m) for the 278kg bluefin tuna at the new year auction in Tokyo.