At Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market held the first of the year fish auction, which was broken a new record - for bluefin tuna carcass weight of 269 kg buyer laid 736 thousand dollars holder of such a valuable tuna became the owner of Tokyo Sushi chain of restaurants. He expressed the hope that his purchase at least to some extent help to resume buying spree in Japan, experienced in the past year, the hardest natural disasters.
In Japan it is known as "Kuro Maguro" (black tuna), and sushi connoisseurs of rare christened his "black diamond".