Marine Microbial Innovation

Small Particles.
Global Impact.

We're harvesting the ocean's smallest lifeforms — phytoplankton — to solve humanity's most urgent challenge. Sustainable nutrition at planetary scale, in harmony with the ocean.

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The Challenge

The World's Food Systems
Are Breaking Down

Over 2 billion people face food insecurity today. Traditional agriculture consumes 70% of global freshwater, destroys ecosystems, and is running out of room to grow — literally. The systems we depend on were built for a different world.

Conventional protein sources — soy, fishmeal, grain-fed livestock — are resource-intensive and ecologically destructive. Fishmeal alone drives overfishing. Soy drives deforestation. Neither can sustainably scale to feed 10 billion people by 2050.

We need a fundamentally different answer. Not a marginal improvement on broken systems, but a new paradigm — one found not on land, but in the ocean, in the most abundant lifeforms on Earth.

2B+
people face food insecurity worldwide today
70%
of global freshwater consumed by agriculture
50%
of Earth's primary productivity generated by phytoplankton
10B
people to feed by 2050 — current food systems won't cope

Our Technology

We Found the Answer
in the Ocean

Phytoplankton are everywhere — up to 100 billion organisms per litre of seawater. They produce half the world's oxygen, anchor the marine food chain, and are packed with protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and essential micronutrients. The ocean has been producing them for 3 billion years.

The missing piece was harvesting them efficiently, without harming the ecosystems that depend on them. Every existing method was either too slow, too destructive, or too expensive to scale.

SeaCrop's breakthrough: a curtain of positively charged electrostatic fibres. Phytoplankton naturally carry a negative charge. As ocean water flows through the fibre curtain, plankton adhere gently — no nets, no chemicals, no pressure. The ocean keeps flowing. The plankton are captured. The ecosystem is untouched.

  • Non-destructive capture preserves full nutritional integrity of the biomass
  • Deployable in open ocean and eutrophic dead zones, actively restoring marine balance
  • Scales from pilot systems to industrial volumes with the same core technology
  • Zero freshwater required — powered by ocean currents and natural plankton behaviour
Electrostatic
Capture

Applications

One Resource.
Many Solutions.

SeaCrop's plankton biomass is a versatile, high-value input for the industries that matter most — without compromising the ocean that produces it.

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Aquaculture

Replace energy-intensive fishmeal with a direct, ocean-derived protein source. SeaCrop biomass delivers the omega-3s and micronutrients farmed fish need — sourced sustainably, at scale, without depleting wild fish populations.

Fish Farming
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Livestock Feed

Reduce dependence on land-intensive soy and grain-based feeds. Phytoplankton biomass is a high-protein, nutrient-dense supplement for poultry, pigs, and cattle — lowering the environmental footprint of meat and dairy production.

Animal Nutrition
🌱

Human Nutrition

From functional food ingredients to nutraceuticals, SeaCrop opens a new category of ocean-derived nutrition. Clean-label, complete protein, traceable to source — for a growing global market demanding better answers.

Food & Nutraceuticals

Market Opportunity

A €670M+ Market
Ready for Disruption

Independent analysis by Hatch Blue — a global aquaculture innovation consultancy — confirms the commercial scale of SeaCrop's primary target markets in global aquafeed.

€670M+
Total Addressable Market — global salmon & shrimp aquafeed at 6.5% inclusion per year
€44–64M
Serviceable Addressable Market — realistic 5–15% market capture of primary aquafeed segments
$347B
Global aquaculture farmgate value (2023) — growing at ~4% CAGR, salmon & shrimp leading
~10M mt/yr
Combined Atlantic Salmon & Whiteleg Shrimp annual harvest — SeaCrop's primary target species

SeaCrop is positioned as a next-generation marine ingredient — combining strong nutritional profile (omega-3s, protein, bioactives), potentially unlimited scalability, near-zero land and water footprint, and no dependence on wild fisheries. In Hatch Blue's competitor matrix, SeaCrop occupies a uniquely advantageous position no conventional ingredient currently achieves: high sustainability, high scalability, and high nutritional quality simultaneously.

Full Market & Competitor Assessment

Prepared by Hatch Blue for the CREST Programme (2025). Covers TAM/SAM modelling for Atlantic Salmon and Whiteleg Shrimp aquafeed, the competitive ingredient landscape, and regional production breakdowns.

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Competitive Landscape

No Trade-offs.

Every existing aquafeed ingredient forces a compromise — between nutrition and sustainability, or scalability and cost. SeaCrop is the first to eliminate the trade-off entirely.

Colour = Price level
Low Medium High / Very High
Size = Scalability potential
Limited High Unlimited

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Ingredient Nutritional Profile ▲ Scalability ▲ Cost ▲ Sustainability ▲ Wild Catch Impact ▲
Fish Meal Excellent Limited Volatile Poor High
Fish Oil Excellent Limited High & Volatile Poor High
Krill Meal Premium Very Limited Very High Poor Critical
Soy Protein Moderate High Low Mixed None
SeaCrop Best Choice Strong Unlimited Low Excellent Zero
Favourable Mixed / Moderate Unfavourable

Source: Hatch Blue Market & Competitor Assessment, CREST Programme 2025

"The smallest particles can make the biggest impact."
SeaCrop — Small Particles. Global Impact.

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