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
July 11, 2025
Shortly arrived from its maiden voyage to Morocco, our ‘Mobile Station’ embarked on a nearly 8.000 km journey that began in Peniche, and then drove us […]
June 21, 2025
Congratulations to Zoë Fodderie, an M.Sc. student who is researching chronic stress in neonatal small spotted catsharks in the Flanders Marine Institute (Ostend, Belgium) over a […]
June 21, 2025
Did you know that Flying Sharks welcomed and recovered close to 100 (!) sea-turtles at the Porto Pim Aquarium since its opening in June 2013? Click […]
June 8, 2025
It’s been a long and gruelling process, beginning back in October 2020, but we take great pleasure in celebrating this year’s World Oceans Day by sharing […]
May 31, 2025
Congratulations to Esther Asantewaa, a young student from Ghana, who’s doing her MPhil in Wildlife and Range Management at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and […]
May 18, 2025
You may remember this name from 2023, when Wadmilton, and a fellow colleague from São Tomé & Príncipe received some funding to cover tuition for their […]