We study the Cauchy problem for the Davey-Stewartson equation i(e)tu+Au+|u|2u+E1(|u|2)u=0,(t,x)∈R×R3.The dichotomy between scattering and finite time blow-up shall be proved for initial data with finite variance and with mass-energy M(uo)E(uo) above the ground state threshold M(Q)E(Q).