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
December 3, 2025
So, Flying Sharks finally kicked off its first collection mission in the Middle East, after our exploratory trip back in February, when we basically spent two […]
December 2, 2025
Congratulations Buddhi Maheshika! Remember our friend Buddhi Maheshika, who received funding from us twice already and keeps making us proud every single year? Well… she’s back […]
December 1, 2025
What an unforgettable week this was! First things first: a MASSIVE thank you to our wonderful host Dilek Capanoglu, Director of the Istanbul Aquarium, for organizing […]
October 8, 2025
Congratulations to Helena Carvalho, a student from ESTM who got accepted to do her Marine Biology internship at Elding Whale Watching in Iceland! Every year, our […]
September 24, 2025
We said it before, and we’ll say it again: one of these days we’ll have to change our name to “Flying Sharks – and sea-turtles“, because […]
September 21, 2025
It all started with some captive bred Gadus morhua, in the distant 2003, while we assisted the good people from the Ílhavo Museum stock their aquarium, […]







