Portuguese Prime Minister Visits IPMA Research Ship Mário Ruivo

ALMADA, PORTUGAL - APRIL 12: (L-R) Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa is accompanied by the Minister of National Defense João Gomes Cravinho and the Minister of Maritime Affairs Ricardo Serrão Santos on a visit to IPMA ship RV Mário Ruivo moored at the Lisboa Portuguese Navy Base during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on April 12, 2021 in Almada, Portugal. RV Mário Ruivo is an IPMA (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera) Portuguese research vessel that aims to conduct research on the Atlantic Ocean, contributing to increase scientific knowledge and understanding, leading to more inform policies and improving the management of the maritime space and its resources. Its first campaign, which will start as soon as possible, is a 30-day demersal campaign along the Portuguese continental coast to collect data on the geographical distribution, abundance/biomass indices and recruitment of hake, horse mackerel and other demersal species. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)