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
April 6, 2025
Another day, another beautiful Flying Sharks order! This time we shipped quite a few captive bred Scyliorhinus stellaris, Scyliorhinus canicula and Raja undulata to our friends […]
March 31, 2025
Many thanks to our friends from SEA LIFE Porto and SEA LIFE Blankenberge for choosing Flying Sharks to move two Rhinoptera bonasus from Portugal to Belgium […]
March 25, 2025
Remember our awesome “Mobile Station“, that we’ve been raving about for five years?? Guess what’s ready to rock & roll and about to embark on its […]
March 25, 2025
Ready for your batch of Sepia officinalis eggs?? Drop us a line while they’re in season before the’y a’re gone for the year! We ship them […]
February 23, 2025
Congratulations Iracema Hussein, who received some funding from us waaaaaay back in 2021, when she started her Ph.D. at the University of Aveiro, under Professor Fernando […]
February 23, 2025
Congratulations to our friends from ECOMARE (Univ. of Aveiro), particularly our good friend Ricardo Calado and his awesome team, who are breeding these little critters like […]