Abstract: Chinese and international evaluating methods of management effectiveness of marine protected areas were compared in this paper. Their merits and shortcomings were analyzed. Based on the characteristics of marine ecologically protected red lines, and fully acknowledged the useful aspects of the methods mentioned above, three kinds of indicators including biophysical, social and governance indicators were suggested for evaluating management effectiveness of marine ecologically protected red line areas. Furthermore, some indicators were found necessarily to be set as obligatory ones.