A giant bluefin tuna has sold for a record-breaking amount at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market in Japan. The enormous fish weighs a whopping 243kg - that's about as heavy as a fully grown lion - and sold for 510.3 million yen ($3.2m; £2.4m) at the market's first auction of the year.

A 535-pound Pacific bluefin caught off Oma in northern Japan sold for $3.2 million at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market. The winning bid came from Sushi Zanmai founder Kiyoshi Kimura, who’s now taken the biggest fish of the year seven times.

That's a REALLY big fish. This one weighed in at 535 pounds (243 kilograms). It sold for a record $3.2 million (510 million yen) on Monday at an enormous annual New Year's auction in Tokyo's Toyosu fish market.

A colossal 535-pound bluefin tuna fetched a record-breaking ¥510 million at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market's first auction of 2026. Kiyomura Corp's Kiyoshi Kimura, owner of Sushi Zanmai, made the winning bid,

The pricey fish, caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan, costs 2.1 million yen (US$13,360) per kilogram.