John Auckland, Seafields CEO, gives New Business background into the creation of a climate saving, potential trillion-dollar industry, capable of removing gigatonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere
While sailing through the Caribbean, Seafields founder Sebastian, witnessed vast Sargassum blooms choking coastlines. Where others saw an environmental crisis, he saw potential, imagining this untapped seaweed as a future sustainable fuel and the foundation of a regenerative ocean economy.
That moment sparked the creation of Seafields. Our mission from the outset has been ambitious: intercept Sargassum before it reaches shore, preserve it using our proprietary Algaeponix paddocks, and transform it into high-value products such as biostimulants, bioplastics, and sustainable packaging. The result is not just coastal protection and carbon removal on a gigatonne scale, it's a new source of sustainable feedstock for the booming bio-based economy.
Today, Seafields is the only company turning a nuisance seaweed into a reliable, year-round supply opportunity, thanks to our innovative Algaeponix paddocks and SeaClear harvesting solution. After years of pioneering research, partnerships, and pilots across the Caribbean, we're now scaling up to meet growing global demand.
The next chapter is about acceleration deploying more SeaClear platforms, expanding SeaGrow farms, and delivering secure, traceable feedstocks to industries ready for sustainable alternatives. Our vision is clear. A future where a harmful seaweed bloom becomes the backbone of a multi-billion-dollar, planet-positive economy.
Seafields, has recently launched its second crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube scheduled to close on Sept 5th - giving angel investors and the general public the chance to back a scalable solution that can transform an ecological crisis into a profitable, planet-positive industry. At full deployment, Seafields' model could remove up to 42 gigatonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere while opening a multi-billion-dollar market for sustainable bio-feedstocks. They are the only seaweed business on the planet that can supply this problematic seaweed fresh, all year round, with zero supply chain risk.
Every year, millions of tonnes of Sargassum seaweed inundate coastlines across the entire Caribbean region, choking ecosystems, devastating tourism, and harming fishing industries. Seafields is transforming this environmental disaster into a high-value climate solution. As the only company worldwide capable of intercepting, managing, and cultivating Sargassum at scale, Seafields can provide a sustainable, year-round supply for emerging bio-based industries-without supply chain risk-while generating permanent carbon removal credits.
Through uniquely developed barriers and paddocks, Seafields' SeaClear platform intercepts Sargassum before it reaches shore, and stores it in water in their proprietary Algaeponix paddocks. This allows it to be kept fresh before being processed into industrial feedstocks for products including sustainable packaging, skincare, bioplastics, and biochar. Seafields' SeaGrow farms have significant production capacity, for example, a 60-paddock farm over 10 years produces 482,591 litres of biostimulant annually. Through a combination of operating their own farms and licensing, Seafields will create over 100 farms in the Caribbean region, solving the Sargassum issue in the central Atlantic.
Seafields' platforms have already fostered partnerships worth over $2 million. The company is currently working with Caribbean resorts on SeaClear farm opportunities and is signing their first offtake agreements for Sargassum derived products such as biostimulants. Recently, Seafields signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Seedsman, a leading international cannabis seed bank, to supply a natural plant growth enhancer derived from sustainably sourced Sargassum. SeaClear is now being deployed in partnership with the island of St. Vincent through a pilot project with PRGD (Private Refuse and Garbage Disposal), supported by the OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States) UBEC (Unleashing the Blue Economy in the Caribbean) initiative, with funding from the World Bank.
SeaClear and SeaGrow are a clear signal of the growing commercial demand for ocean-derived products and Seafields' ability to deliver sustainable, high-value feedstocks for the booming bio-based economy. SeaClear is going to completely change the game for Sargassum product companies, It's completely unique in the seaweed world. As far as we know we are the only seaweed farming business from any seaweed species that can take a problematic seaweed bloom and preserve its freshness year-round in our unique Algaeponix paddocks.
This is so important because circular product manufacturers typically want a strong narrative around where they've acquired their feedstock, to justify the green premium they charge their customers. Additionally, they want their operational emissions across their supply chain to be as low as possible.
SeaClear is entirely unique in being able to provide our customers with both of these benefits, that's why many big names are reaching out to work with us. Together, we can turn a seaweed crisis into a climate-saving industry."
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