The seafood sector estimates that it will earn $3.4 billion from exports in the first seven months of this year, a year on year increase of 6.5 percent.
However, this is a much lower growth rate than that in the same period of 2010, which recorded 20 percent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Economic analysts have forecast that the sector’s export value will be nearly the same as last year, unless current obstacles are removed and the major import markets recover.