Nowadays, countries around the world pay more and more attention to issues of fishery resources, ecological environment protection, food safety and labor force. The development of pelagic fisheries is in a new period of change. By studying the changes of fishing vessels, production and processing trade of pelagic fishing states in recent years, the development characteristics of the world's pelagic fisheries can be summarized as: the trend of vessel reduction is obvious among major pelagic countries, the fields and subjects of funding and investment become expanded and diversified, and the number of overseas bases is increasing besides bring more competitions. In condition of uneven distribution of global fishery resources, the process of liberalization and globalization of overseas trade continues to accelerate. Based on the development needs and directions of pelagic fishery industry of countries, to analyze the development trend of world pelagic fishery, it can concluded that countries are moving towards localization and standardized management in terms of the number of fishing vessels, scale of production, scope of investment, subject of investment and construction of overseas bases. The response to global fishery resources decline gets more powerful. Constructing traceability and standardization system and other primal issues are key tasks for sustainable development of pelagic fisheries.