At the local wholesale market in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, there is an auction of raw sei whale meat that has been caught, and the meat from the rare part called "tail meat" fetches a record high of 500,000 yen per kilogram. I was.
About two tons of raw sei whale meat caught off the coast of Hokkaido was put up for auction.
When the auction begins at 2:00 a.m., raw meat is auctioned off one after another to the high-spirited cries of the auctioneers. Best value ever.
According to Kyodo Senpaku, a whaling company, raw whale meat has doubled since the highest ever price of 250,000 yen per kilogram auctioned in Osaka last month.
Hideki Tokoro, president of the fishery company "Kyodo Senpaku", said, "I'm surprised that the price is higher than I imagined. I want many people to taste rare raw meat."
The managing director of a fresh fish intermediate wholesaler who won the auction for 500,000 yen said, "It was good meat with beautiful marbling, and the impact of the new corona continues, so I set the price with the hope that it would boost the economy. I was talking.