Nowadays, more and more countries focus on reducing excessive fishing capacity in order to conserve and manage the fishery resources, and it is a common tendency of international fishery management. This paper analyses the necessity to enforce the scheme of reducing excessive fishing vessels in China as follows: the marine fisheries resources have been depleted; the fishing capacity is excessive and the fishing areas reduced. Based on the analysis, some suggestions are put forward on how to bring the plan into effect: 1. Adjusting the structure of fishery industry; 2. Enforcing the policy of restricting fishing intensity strictly; 3. Implementing fishing vessels de-commission and buy-back scheme.