Tokyo Auction

The Junior Market Steer Auction at the Houston Livestock Show brings in a lot of cash.  The top price, and still a world record, was the $600,001 paid for the Grand Champion Steer in 2002.
But...
That doesn't hold a candle to what Japanese pay for Blue Fin Tuna. 

In today's auction that opens the 2019 Tuna season in Tokyo, a 278 kilo (613 pound) fish sold for 333.6 million yen.  That's about $5000 a pound, or 3.1 million dollars!

The tuna was bought by the Kiyomura Corp., which runs the Sushizanmai restaurant chain across Japan, placed the winning bid, and by the time you read this, the fish may already be eaten - the Japanese do like their sushi fresh.