The Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (IIM), belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), was created in 1951 as a coastal laboratory dependent on the Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras de Barcelona, which it left in 1978. At that time, as an independent centre, it took the name of Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras, adopting its current name in 1986. The IIM-CSIC is one of the main marine research centers in the Iberian Peninsula. Looking at the Atlantic from Vigo, a city with a strong connection with the sea, the IIM-CSIC faces the challenge of increasing our knowledge about the ocean, from its physical characteristics to the food we take from it and the processes that bind the whole system together.