Established in 2006 Flying Sharks has been flying live marine animals to public aquaria all over the World, from Japan to the USA, Turkey to Dubai, Singapore to Saudi Arabia, all European countries to Russia, and many other locations. We regularly supply ornamental fish and invertebrates in boxes, and frequently move large amounts of animals in large shipping containers by sea, road or air.
All animals are collected by our staff, often in cooperation with commercial fishermen, none of them using environmentally destructive techniques, such as trawling, drift gill-netting or chemicals of any sort. The vast majority of animals are hand collected individually, while some swim passively into traps or get caught by barbless, easily removable, hooks.
Flying Sharks is also proud to boast a predominantly scientific team and fervorously supports research conducted both inhouse or by our "Flying Sharks Research Fund" recipients. All our results (both the good and the not-so-good) are published in peer reviewed journals (check them out in the "Literature" section) and disseminated in scientific meetings all over the globe.
Feel free to get to know us better by touring our "Missions" on the menu on top and don't miss our "Research Fund" area also.
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September 23, 2024
Wow, what a whirlwind this year’s EUAC meeting was!!With 2.5 days of talks plus an awesome ice-breaker, there was no time for leaving a single subject […]
September 23, 2024
There was a time when our “News” section was covered in Research Fund pictures, with young students smiling at the camera. These days it seems “sea-turtles” […]
September 23, 2024
Another day, another extremely successful Flying Sharks transport, this time moving nearly 800 sharks, rays, teleosts and inverts to Al Hoceima, in Morocco. This was our […]
September 1, 2024
Who would have thought, back on the 1st of September 2006, that Flying Sharks would be celebrating 18 years of age?? It’s been a wild ride […]
September 1, 2024
Great news, everyone! The two sea-turtles that were recovered by our friends from Diergaarde Blijdorp / Rotterdam Zoo and Flying Sharks welcomed last week were reintroduced […]
August 22, 2024
If you didn’t live in the 80s, the title of this post will make absolutely no sense, but you can always Google “Pass the Dutchie” and […]