Tokyo's tuna auctions resume public viewing after 8-month hiatus

Reopening at capped capacity sounds like a responsible way of doing it, unlike restaurants and bars than are back to full capacity - the classic pre-covid shoulder-to-shoulder sitting.

Hope it remains open with these right measures in place.

At least three people in the photo with their masks off their noses..

Even with covid-19, they can't see further than their noses? :-)

Discraceful.

A market for buy/selling the carcasses of an engangered species and apex preditor - so important to the health of the ocean eco system.

Wow that's a lot of juvenile tuna. You keep taking away younger and younger fish and there will be no future for tuna, no matter which international water they go on the planet to vacuum them up.

When Japan was closed off to the world it was actually quite vegetarian given the lack of land this limited meat and the population could do only so much fishing. It wouldn't be a bad idea to revive local vegetarian dishes given the great chefs that abound today. I'm sure they would be popular.

Interestingly the Okinawa diet of fame was a 96% plant based diet, mostly sweet potatoes. That's dropped out of favour though with so many KFC's.

There's a diet shake up to occur when the fish are gone, it's possible Japan can come out ahead if it can revive its positive food history.

If there isn’t a fishing hiatus on bluefin there won’t be a tuna auction

The fish in the photo are kids, didn’t reproduce. It’s not going to suddenly get better.

Not a popular fact, but it is a fact.

Such an embarrassing time to be a tuna.

WOW. Really agree with posters above. It has been my own observation of the experience as well. I wish the entire Toyosu site would return to Tsukiji's current parking lot. Also, no need to fish tuna into extinction. Tsukiji wholesale had heaps of other attractions!

people dont wear mask, endanger spesies, juvenile tuna...come on, please dont complain for the sake of "complaining". my 3 years old behave exactly the same

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Hopefully those politicans will do somethink about family laws before that.

Spiriting away my daughter at age 12 and now first contact again at age 34.

Do you call that G well 10 country?Edo means no refuse

A market for buy/selling the carcasses of an engangered species and apex preditor - so important to the health of the ocean eco system.

Only bluefin are endangered and by all accounts bluefin are less than 1% of tuna caught. Other breeds of tuna are not endangered.

If there isn’t a fishing hiatus on bluefin there won’t be a tuna auction

The fish in the photo are kids, didn’t reproduce. It’s not going to suddenly get better.

How do you know they're bluefin? Nothing in the article states which species of tuna is shown in the market.

Can't wait to pay over the top for some juicy fishes, fed up with fishing every weekend and catching nothing!

Can't wait to pay over the top for some juicy fishes, fed up with fishing every weekend and catching nothing!

Correlation?

How do you know they're bluefin? Nothing in the article states which species of tuna is shown in the market.

Bluefin or “Honmaguro” are usually delivered fresh. These frozen tuna are most likely yellow fin from the Indian Ocean and stored on massive factory ships for 2~3 month voyages.