Bluefin tuna this year's first big catch Niigata Sado June 9 8:11
In Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, bluefin tuna were landed one after another on the 8th, and the harbor became lively for the first big catch.
Offshore of Sado City, tuna fishing by set net is popular, and every year at this time, chasing squid and flying fish, which are foodstuffs, begins to catch bluefin tuna moving northward over the Sea of Japan.
At Ryotsu fishing port, 380 bluefin tuna were landed one after another on the 8th, and the port was booming for the first big catch.
The landed bluefin tuna weighs as small as 50 to 60 kg, but some of them were close to 200 kg.
In order to keep the tuna fresh, it is immediately packed in a wooden box containing ice, shipped to the Toyosu market in Tokyo and traded for about 3000 yen per kilo.
Hirotoshi Honda, head of the Utsumi Prefecture Fisheries Production Association, said, "I feel like the tuna has finally arrived. The price has been suppressed due to the new coronavirus, but I hope it will be good news to blow it away." It was.
Sado's bluefin tuna fishing will reach its peak over the next month.