The invention discloses an offshore wind plant submarine cable monitoring and protecting system and method, and the method comprises the following steps: carrying out the real-time monitoring of the temperature, strain and disturbance state of a submarine cable, obtaining the ship information through a ship automatic recognition system, and arranging an electronic fence outside the submarine cable, giving an alarm to the ship entering the electronic fence according to the ship navigational speed in the ship information; predicting the trajectory direction of the ship according to data acquired by a ship automatic identification system, tracking the ship through a radar, carrying out view screen shooting on the ship, expelling the ship, and carrying out positioning analysis on a submarine cable fault point. According to the invention, comprehensive monitoring and protection of the submarine cable, which integrates submarine cable state monitoring, AIS ship information monitoring and radar scanning, trajectory prediction and video storage, are realized, so that the operation safety of the submarine cable is guaranteed. And the submarine cable can be conveniently protected from the operation state of the submarine cable, ship hazard early warning and the like.