The average price for domestic seine net-caught frozen bluefin tuna at Tokyo’s Tsukiji auction on 29 January was JPY 4,586 per kilogram. Domestic farmed blufin tuna averaged JPY 3,575 and Spanish farmed came in at JPY 3,500, according to a market report of the website Marunaka-net.
Data from the Japan Fisheries Association shows that in 2009, average prices of all frozen bluefin declined at the beginning of the year, reflecting the end of holiday demand, and increased in the summer to around …
