The invention discloses a method for identifying the production places and tracing to the source of silvery pomfret based on fingerprint. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly preparinga to-be-tested solution of silvery pomfret muscle; determining the content of eight mineral elements Na, Mn, Co, Cu, As, Se, Rb and Sn in the to-be-tested solution of the silvery pomfret muscle by using an inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer and an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer; and substituting determination results into silvery pomfret discrimination function models,and determining the production places of the silvery pomfret by comparing the size of the silvery pomfret discrimination function models. The silvery pomfret discrimination function models for the three production places of Lvsi in Jiangsu, Zhoushan in Zhejiang, and Sanya in Hainan are established for the first time according to the method. The accuracy rate of discriminating the production places of the silvery pomfret by using the discrimination function models is 92% or more, thus not only is the true characteristic information represented, but also relatively high degree of credibility isachieved in the source information of the production places; and the method has important guiding significance for quickly identifying the production places and tracing to the source of the silvery pomfret.