The National Sea Grant Library, NSGL, is the most comprehensive collection of Sea Grant funded documents in the world. The NSGL was established in 1970 as the official Sea Grant archive and the collection covers a wide variety of subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic nuisance species, coastal hazards, seafood safety, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law.

The NSGL staff lends documents all over the world to aid scientists, teachers, students, fishermen, and many other individuals in their research and studies. The NSGL also maintains a 36,000 record bibliographic database that is searchable from this website. Here you may obtain citations and abstracts of Sea Grant publications and, in many cases, you may access a full text copy of the document online.

Sea Grant encourages the wise stewardship of our marine resources through research, education, outreach and technology transfer and the NSGL is committed to providing easy access to the wealth of information that is generated by the program.