High bids traditionally mark the year's first auction at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market.

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Teams of Japanese inspectors fly into Port Lincoln to examine each harvest before it's flown off to Narita and trucked to the giant predawn Tsukiji Fish Market.

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Does this diminish the famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo?

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