Saury prices fall by half in 1st auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji
Jiji -- Jul 12
Prices of saury, a taste of Japanese autumn, ranged from 400 yen to 1,900 yen per fish, mostly less than half the prices of last year, in this year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on Monday.

The market received some 780 kilograms, eight times more than last year, when saury were scarce, after they were airlifted from Hokkaido, northernmost Japan.

The season's first saury were unloaded at Kushiro port in Hokkaido on Monday, following the season's opening for small fishing boats off Hokkaido's east coast.

Although the saury are thin and not fatty yet early in the season, "they're bigger than last year and the colors are nice," a wholesale trader said.

資源の枯渇が懸念されるサンマについて、日本は国や地域ごとに漁獲量に上限を設けることを国際会議で提案します。
News sources: Jiji, ANNnewsCH