How do you cut up a 400-pound tuna?
Customers look to get a piece of the giant 400-pound bluefin tuna during a carving show at Mitsuwa Marketplace in Arlington Heights.
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Customers view the meat for sale from the 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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The cutting up a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna during a carving show.
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Masato Takai, store manager, auctions off the head of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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The cutting up of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna during a carving show.
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Masato Takai, store manager, auctions off part of the fin area of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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Part of the 400-pound bluefin tuna is ready for sale.
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The Ohtoro portion of this bluefin tuna is the most fatty and prized part.
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The cutting up of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna during a carving show at Mitsuwa Marketplace in Arlington Heights. Left to right are Makoto Irie, Atshshi Igarashi and Takashi Shinozaki.
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At left, Atshshi Igarashi works to cut up a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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Many hands help cut up and distribute the 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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Rieko Miyamoto scrapes part of the meat from the ribs of a giant 400- pound bluefin tuna.
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Prospective buyers watch the cutting up a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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Atsushi Igarashi removes one of the fins of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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The head of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna during a carving show.
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Left to right are Makoto Irie, Takashi Shinozaki and Atshshi Igarashi during the cutting up of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna.
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Makoto Irie carries part of a giant 400-pound bluefin tuna to carve and sell. This fish was caught in the Mediterranean Sea near Italy.
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At right Haruma Kurita, 8, of Elk Grove watches the cutting up of a giant 400 pound bluefin tuna.
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