All plans which have been prepared for more than 10 years were in vain. The plan of Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) failed, which also meant that the failure of planning to establish the world ’s largest marine protected area.

Tim Parker Azer, the marine ecologist at WWF, said: "This is a step backwards for marine protection."

In a position paper wrote by the Russian delegation questioned whether CCAMLR had the right to establish protected area. "It is obviously unclear what will the draft of the establishment of marine protected areas contain."It is a lack of clear definitions and basic law for "CCAMLR to establish such protected area.

"It's unexpected for all of us, nobody understood Russia's behavior," Park Ezer said. "Everyone was guessing what was behind." The participants speculated that the instructions given by Moscow, presumably because of geopolitics. They did not understand why Russia did not express these basic concerns before the meeting.

According to the participants, at first Ukraine also opposed the meeting ’s decision to establish a marine protected area, but eventually it expressed willingness to negotiate. Although China was willing to negotiate, it had serious concerns about the strict regulations on planned marine protected area.

CCAMLR planned to decide whether to establish marine protected areas in the Ross Sea and eastern Antarcticaat the Bremerhaven meeting. The total area of the protected area was about 3.8 million square kilometers, which would be the largest one in the world. At the CCAMLR annual meeting held in Hobart, Australia last fall, the proposal to establish a protected area failed because of the opposition from Russia, Ukraine and China.

Andrea Cavana, from American Pew Environmental Organization said that they had to reach a consensus at the CCAMLR Hobart meeting three months later. But the probability seemed to be extremely low.