According to the statistics of the Ministry of Trade of Vietnam, the national export turnover was about US$2,300 million in August for which the fishery export revenues accounted 9.9%, estimated US$220 million. Approximately, the domestic exports for the first eight months reached US$16,976 million, a year-on-year rise of 16%. While the fishery share was only around US$1,435 million or 57,5% of the 2004 plan for export, a slight year-on-year increase of 2.1%. The fishery export revenue used to made up 11-12% of the national export value over past years. However, this share shrank to 8.5% during last eight months and the average fishery export was merely US$179.4 million per month. In order to meet the 2004 planned fishery export turn-over of US$2.5 billion, the country should export a volume of about US$1,1 billion in value for the remainder of the year or US$260 million per month.