Bluefin Tuna Sold for nearly $400,000 (32.49m yen) at Tokyo Auction

(AP)

A record 32.49m yen (near $400,000) was paid by two restaurant owners in a Tokyo Auction for 754 lb Bluefin Tuna.  The owners, Ricky Cheng and Yosuke Imada, will split up the meat and use it for sushi in their restaurants. The astounding sales price equals out to around $530 per pound.  The record sale also raises concerns for the fish species. Some experts believe the population of the valuable fish has declined by nearly 90% since the 1970s due to overfishing and pollution. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas voted  in November to cut the Bluefin Tuna fishing quota in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from 13,500 to 12,900 tons annually, but conservationists wanted an even larger cutback.