Tsukiji moves about five million pounds (2,268,000 kilograms) of seafood every day—seven times as much as Paris's Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale market, and 11 times the volume of New York City's Fulton Fish Market, the largest fish market in North America. In dollar terms, that comes to about (U.S.) 28 million dollars' worth of fish per day.

— From "Tsukiji: The Great Tokyo Fish Market," November 1995, National Geographic magazine