Abstract: This article design the fishery evaluation index system for quantitatively study the status of fishery industry development of the coastal province, applying Delphi method and Grey Analytic Hierarchy Process (GAHP) model to determine the weight of each group on its social and economic development. Social and economic development data of eight big representative coastal fishery provinces in 2012 were chosen for quantitative evaluation. Statistic results show that, ranking order of the eight coastal provinces’s fishery degreeof social and economic development from high to low is Shanghai, Fujian, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Kwangtung and Guangxi. According to the result of comprehensive evaluation, the author put forward suggestions as making coastal provinces to plan as a whole the fishery economy and social coordinated development, adjusting the structure of fishery industry, improving the efficiency of fishery production and protecting the fishermen's life quality etc.