800 lb tuna snagged by feds

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Originally Posted by RWilson2526

The guy must be bummed for sure but the $396,000 price of a previous large blue fin was a rare occurrence....that fish sold in the first auction of the year in Japan and was also caught in Japanese waters and for that area was overly large. Those 3 things combined is what made it super expensive for the Japanese sushi market....a US caught Bluefin isnt worth a tenth of that price.

That is a rather important point that the original story fails to make clear. Thanks for the reality check.