This year's first auction of the winter delicacy fugu, or blowfish, has been held in Shimonoseki ... a.m. at the Haedomari market, which handles the largest volume of the fish in the country.

a 39-year-old fish wholesaler in Shimonoseki, who won the bid. He said he plans to ship the meat to restaurants in Hiroshima and Tokyo. Last year, the same wholesale market at the Shimonoseki ...

The fresh meat from fin whales was sold at a fish market in Shimonoseki (Shimonoseki City, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Maintenance Division via AP) Meat from fin whales caught for the ...

In a photo posted by the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture ... but one of them suggested the fish might have been lonely without visitors showing up to its tank.