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 7, 2024
Congratulations Sara Novais, who requested some funding from us, more than a year ago (!), so she could fly to Dublin and present her work on […]
April 6, 2024
The title may suggest that we lost our minds, but we didn’t. We want to congratulate Ana Sequeira, who was the first recipient of our Flying […]
April 5, 2024
Congratulations to Fanny Vermandele and Lauric Feugère, two early-career researchers (Ph.D. and post-doc) working in Prof. Piero Calosi’s Marine Eco-evolutionary physiology laboratory at the University of […]
March 10, 2024
While Flying Shaks was born on the 1st of September 2006 and we shipped many thousands of animals across the globe since...
March 9, 2024
The boys hardly had time to unpack from their job in Paris, as they rushed to Sea Life Oberhausen, where an underwater acrylic tunnel, huge circular […]
March 9, 2024
When our friends from the National Aquarium in Abu Dhabi placed an order for wolf-eels we couldn't imagine how excited the aquarium community would be at the prospect of receiving some of these amazing animals, particularly if captive bred in British Columbia, Canada.