The buyer, Onodera Group, bought the 608-pound tuna Sunday at Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo. The company shared the news across its social media profiles and in a news release. The buyer said online that the company has bought the first tuna at the auction for the past five years.

It is the second highest price paid at the opening auction of the year in Tokyo's main fish market since comparable data started being collected in 1999.

A company spent $1.3 million to acquire a massive tuna during an auction held at a Japanese fish market in Tokyo over the weekend. It weighed over 600 pounds.

An Oma Pacific bluefin tuna, weighing 608 pounds, sold at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market. It’s one of the most expensive tuna fish to be sold in the history of sushi.

A Michelin-starred sushi restaurant group has paid 207 million yen ($1.3 million) for a tuna in the annual New Year auction, marking the second-highest

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.

The fish weighed 608 pounds, which is also about the same size as an adult male grizzly bear. It garnered the second highest bid at the Toyosu Market since records began in 1999

The top bidder at a Tokyo fish market paid 207 million yen ($1.3 million) for a 608 pound bluefin tuna on Sunday, the second-highest price ever.