The Ross Sea region marine protected area: can it be successfully managed?

At the thirty-fifth meeting of the commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart, Australia, in 2006, the members adopted the Ross Sea region marine protection area (MPA)¹ for a period of thirty-five years commencing 1 December 2017.² This signaled the end of one era in CCAMLR conservation of Southern Ocean marine living resources and regulation over access, and the beginning of another-cementing its application of the concept of conservation by advancing the world's largest MPA.