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Browsing through the specimens on sale, biders here at Tsukiji fish market get ready to welcome in 2016. They are about to take part in an important Japanese tradition: the auction of the first bluefin tuna fish of the year, an endangered species caught off Japan North coast. Seen as an auspicious start to the new year, this first year always sells for way over its true value. After a frantic biding, this year's catch went to the owner of a popular sushi restaurants chain for $117.000.
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