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World's Most Expensive Fish Sells for $1.8 Million

By Patrick Boehler, TIME

The fish, similar to this blue-fin tuna, weighed in at 485 pounds, equaling roughly $4,000 per pound.

January 7, 2013 Updated Jan 7, 2013 at 3:45 PM PDT

On Saturday morning around 5 a.m., a 485 pound bluefin tuna was sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market for an all-time high of 155.4 million yen, or 1.8 million dollars, at the annual new year auction, Japan’s national broadcaster NHK reported.

That equals roughly $4,000 per pound of tuna, making the marbled, richly-flavored tuna roughly eight times more expensive than silver.

“The price was a bit high,” the winning bidder Kiyoshi Kimura told the Kyodo News Agency. “But I hope we can encourage Japan by providing good tuna.”

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