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Uemura Ryosuke, 49, Uemura Japanese traditional food restaurant owner, holds 1.8 million Japanese yen worth of a “Matsuba-gani” male snow crab for a photograph after bidding during the first day of the auction at Hamasaka fishing port on November 06, 2025 in Toyooka, Hyogo prefecture, Japan. The largest male crab, weighing approximately 1.3 kilograms, sold for 1.8 million Japanese yen (about 11,725 USD) on the first day of the auction today. In an effort to protect snow crab resources in the Sea of Japan, the prefectural government has introduced restrictions to shorten the fishing season and limit the amount that can be caught. Each year snow crab fishery has been banned from March to November it was lifted from November 6 to March 20th. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
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