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
February 22, 2026
It was at the 2013 EUAC meeting that we downed a few gin & tonics with our friends from Dynasty Marine and Cairns Marine. At first […]
February 22, 2026
Remember our friend Issah Seidu, from Ghana, who received some funding in 2019 and then sent us the papers he published after? This year Issah reached […]
February 22, 2026
Congratulations to Lucy Clarke, a Ph.D. researcher from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, who reached out to us after hitting […]
February 20, 2026
We just wrapped up our third operation in Saudi Arabia (actually the fourth, if we include our exploratory trip precisely one year ago) and, at the […]
January 24, 2026
Congratulations to Cristiana Pereira da Cunha, a Ph.D. student at the University of Aveiro, who reached out to us seeking support to attend Sharks International, the […]
January 24, 2026
The first two weeks of 2026 took us back to Saudi Arabia for our third visit – and our second collections trip – for what is […]







