We aim to understand the current situation of research activities of the authors in fishery field in China , research management department and journal editors. We collected bibliometric data of abroad papers published from 2002 to 2011 by authors from China in fishery research field. By using bibliometricclassified statistics and social network analysis methods,we analyzed the distribution of core authors and institutions, journal and subject distribution of the papers, international cooperation, cooperative network of authors and organizations, and research hotsportsThe results showed that the overall amount of the published articles and times cited of Chinese authors in 2002−2011 experienced great growth. We got 70 core authors by ranking with core indexes and analyzed their characteristics of publishing paper and citation. Chinese authors in fishery field are mainly involved in the subjects of Fisheries, which cross frequently with other subjects such as environmental sciences ecology, oceanography, and biotechnology & applied microbiology. Chinese authors cooperate most with American researchers, the second with Japanese and the third with Australian. The journal AQUACULTURE published the most Chinese articles (448) in this research. Most articles (1 761) were published on journals with impact factor(IF) 2−3, and the average IF (1.948) of the total articles was higher than the average level of the world (1.125, 1.474) et al., with the research direction of aquaculture and nutrient. The other is composed of SONG Linsheng, et al, with the research direction of marine organism molecular genetics, molecular immunology, and disease control. Chinese Academy of Sciences played a dominant role in the cooperative network of organizations which frequently cooperated with Chinese cademy of Fishery Sciences, Ocean University of China, Xiamen University and Nanjing Normal University. Research hotspots of Chinese abroad authors in fishery field were aquaculture and feed, genetic diversity of population, the mechanism of molecular immune, waste water treatment, and eutrophication, which was consistent with most of the topics of core authors.