The invention discloses a method for preparing a modified carbon nanotube-chitosan composite material. The method comprises the following steps: (1) modifying multi-walled carbon nanotubes with dopamine, so as to obtain dopamine modified carbon nanotubes; (2) subjecting a chitosan solution and a glutaraldehyde solution to a stirred and mixed reaction, and carrying out dialysis in distilled water, so as to obtain a chitosan-glutaraldehyde solution; preparing a 2mmol/L modified carbon nanotube solution from the modified carbon nanotube material obtained in the step (1), adding the modified carbon nanotube solution into the chitosan-glutaraldehyde solution, carrying out a reaction, then, adding a sodium borohydride solution, carrying out dialysis in distilled water, and then, carrying out standing, suction filtration, washing and drying. According to the method, the operation is simple, and the prepared modified carbon nanotube-chitosan composite material is high in chitosan graft amount, which is 71.78%, and presents excellent bacteriostatic performance to Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Vibrio anguillarum, thereby having broad-spectrum bacteriostatic performance.