MMBI is one of the most northern academic institutes where fundamental and scientific-applied issues of modern marine biology, oceanography and ecology are solved. 100 scientific employees including 1 academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 doctors and 43 candidates of sciences are working at the Institute. MMBI has fully equipped up-to-date research vessel "Dalnie Zelentsy" and scientific stations in the Kola bay, at the coast of the Barents Sea in Dalnie Zelentsy settlement, on archipelagoes Svalbard and in Azov Branch on the coast of the Taganrog bay. Council on defense of candidate’s and doctoral dissertations on oceanology operates at Institute. MMBI is the oldest science institution in the North. In March of 2015 MMBI  celebrated its 80th anniversary. At present time MMBI is within the jurisdiction of Russian Federal Agency of Science Organizations