Abstract:Freshwater fisheries industry is the basic industries and pillar industries to the rural economy,and also competitive industries in Hubei Province.According to the data of freshwater fisheries input and output in Hubei Province from 1996 to 2007,this paper creates the CD production function of freshwater fishery in Hubei Province.The empirical results show that the main factors impacting the freshwater fisheries production in Hubei Province are culture area,labor input,and capital investment one by one in order,and returns to scale increase.From further comparative analysis of the contribution of various input factors,we find that the order of the contribution of the three main factors is labor input>capital investment>culture area,thus fully proved the labor intensive characterizes the freshwater fisheries in Hubei Province.According to this,this paper puts forward the policy suggestions to promote the development of freshwater fisheries in Hubei Province.