There's A Weird Thing Happening To Your Favorite Fish

There's A Weird Thing Happening To Your Favorite Fish
A customer selects a piece of fat tuna sushi made from a 222-kg (488-pound) bluefin tuna, purchased earlier in the day for a record price and sliced up for customers at the main restaurant of the popular Japanese chain Sushi-Zanmai near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2013. The 222-kg bluefin tuna was traded at 155.4 million yen (appx. 1.8 million USD) at the wholesale market earlier in the day, nearly three times the previous high set last year. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
A customer selects a piece of fat tuna sushi made from a 222-kg (488-pound) bluefin tuna, purchased earlier in the day for a record price and sliced up for customers at the main restaurant of the popular Japanese chain Sushi-Zanmai near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2013. The 222-kg bluefin tuna was traded at 155.4 million yen (appx. 1.8 million USD) at the wholesale market earlier in the day, nearly three times the previous high set last year. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)

Every year, on the first Saturday in January, Japan makes a grand statement to the global fishing community by putting an exorbitant price on the head of a single bluefin tuna.

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