Longer than a man and weighing from 200 to 1,000 pounds (91 to 454 kilograms) each, hundreds of tuna arrive in Japan by cargo jet every day. So voracious is the Japanese appetite for fish that even the swordfish caught by a tourist off the coast of Florida is more likely these days to end up frozen in Tsukiji than stuffed on the fisherman's wall.

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