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.
What are we doing
January 19, 2025
Congratulations Ruben Silva, who received some funding so he could travel all the way to Perth (Australia!) to present his Ph.D. work at the Molluscs 2024 […]
January 16, 2025
We’ve mentioned before that 2024 was Flying Sharks’ best year ever and we’ve thanked our awesome team for their tremendous efforts and unwavering support, often during extremely difficult […]
January 5, 2025
Remember Fabiana Rodrigues (second from the left in the photo), who received 200 euros from us back in April, so she could do her internship at […]
January 5, 2025
Ready for these gorgeous aquacultured Lysmata debelius? Raised with zero environmental impact and zero carbon footprint on transport from the origin to us, fully adapted to […]
December 22, 2024
Congratulations Liliett Francisco, a student who came all the way from Universidade de Lúrio, in Mozambique, to do her Ph.D. at Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal. […]
December 15, 2024
H O L Y mackerel!… What a year this was! Three trips to Gdynia, in Poland. Three trips to Al Hoceima, in Morocco. And one trip […]