At the first auction of the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo this year, the most expensive tuna was sold for 114.24 million yen (almost 800 thousand dollars). RIA Novosti writes that this is the fourth highest price since 1999, when such statistics began to be kept.
It was recorded that the tuna weighed 238 kilograms.
The record price was still 333 million yen, which was $3.1 million at the exchange rate at the time. At the first auction last year, the most expensive tuna was sold for 36 million yen, worth 266 thousand dollars at the then exchange rate.
The first New Year’s tuna trade usually attracts a lot of attention, as it is unofficially considered an indicator of economic trends and a kind of forecast for the year.
Although the tuna forecast is not always accurate, the high price at the first auction is perceived as a good omen.
Previously, researchers have revealed how climate change will affect marine life. Experts conducted a series of experiments using models that predict the impact of rising global temperatures and changes in oxygen levels in seawater.
Tests have shown that as our planet continues to warm, the amount of water that can provide habitable habitat will decrease. This will affect at least dozens of species of marine life.
For example, tuna lives in the oxygenated upper layers of the ocean and cannot enter deeper waters. Suitable area for tuna to survive even if the Earth temporarily warms more than 2°C to be continued It shrinks over hundreds of years.
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