THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 242/2006/QD-TTg
Hanoi, October 25, 2006
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE PROGRAM ON DEVELOPMENT OF AQUATIC PRODUCT EXPORT UP TO 2010 AND ORIENTATIONS TO 2020
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the Minister of Fisheries,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the program on development of aquatic product export up to 2010 and orientations to 2020 with the following principal contents:
I. OBJECTIVES
1. Overall objectives
On the basis of the industrialization and modernization of the fisheries sector, to raise the competitiveness and increase the export of aquatic products in an effective and sustainable manner so that these products attain a high position in the international market. To continue restructuring export in the direction of increasing commodities with high added value and gradually reducing raw products. Aquatic product export serves as an objective and also a motive force for promoting economic restructuring among agricultural sectors, boosting aquaculture and effectively exploiting aquatic products, contributing to improving the life of people in coastal and island rural areas.
2. Specific objectives up to 2010
- To strive to increase aquatic-product export turnover by 9%/year on average;
- By 2010, the export turnover will reach USD 4-4.5 billion.
3. Orientations to 2020
To develop fisheries into a leading industry in the process of agricultural and rural industrialization and modernization; to strive for the target that by 2020, aquatic product-processing technologies will reach the same level as those of developed countries, maintaining fisheries as a spearhead and major exporting industry of the country.
II. TASKS
1. Production of aquatic products to supply materials for export
By 2010, to export over 900,000 tons of aquatic products, including 225,000 tons of shrimp products, 230,000 tons of tra catfish and Basa bocourti products, 75,000 tons of cuttle-fish and octopus products, 160,000 tons of sea fish products, and 40,000 tons of bi-valve mollusk products.
2. Markets
- To maintain and develop aquatic-product export markets. To step up the export of aquatic products into large markets, especially the Chinese market and potential markets; at the same time, to take the initiative in expanding export markets in order to make timely adjustments in case of market fluctuations;
- To strive to stabilize market shares in major export markets such as Japan: 25%; the United States: around 23-25% in the immediate future and over 30% by 2010 and subsequent years; EU: 20-22%; China and Hong Kong: 7-9%; and the Republic of Korea: around 8%.
3. To further renew and improve the processing capacity in the direction of industrialization, modernization and in-depth investment in order to increase export turnover
- To strive for the target that by 2010, 100% of aquatic product-processing enterprises will satisfy branch standards on aquatic food hygiene and safety; at the same time, to increase the refrigerating capacity by 250 tons/day to attain the export objectives;
- To boost the production of added value products and mixedly processed products with a high technological content so that they will represent 65-70% of the total of exported aquatic products by 2010.
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