Vulnerability represents a certain state of a system,and vulnerability analysis is an inevitable requirement for each system to respond to global changes and a necessary path to practice sustainable development.In order to make the fishery system better respond to external changes and maintain the sustainability of fishery resources and its economy,in this paper,we studied the vulnerability theories and methods and their application research progresses in fishery.Through the collation of relevant lit-erature,it is found that vulnerability research has been applied and developed in multiple disciplines and fields,and the theoretical system such as conceptual methods is rich,but there is no unified standard ye.Fishery vulnerability research is still in its infancy,mainly about the vulnerability analysis of spe-cies,ecosystem,and coupled systems,with a relatively mature concept definition and a variety of eval-uation methods.The literature mainly focuses on the quantitative research on the vulnerability of the coupled system and the qualitative and semi-quantitative research on the vulnerability of the species.Only a small amount of literatures studies the vulnerability of the ecosystem.The studies have been conducted on different scales and angles around inland,marine,and special fishery(especially coral reef fishery).Among them,there are more studies on marine fishery,and less on inland fishery,all of which focus on the vulnerability to climate change.The findings of this study can provide a reference for fishery vulnerability assessment in China.