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
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.
March 9, 2024
It wasn’t even a month ago that we published our awesome “Review of Two Decades of in situ Conservation Powered by Public Aquaria” and here we […]
March 9, 2024
Wendell has spent his last few years in the Azores, where he's been able to immerse himself more in the deep-water fisheries universe.
February 4, 2024
Once upon a time we’d sit down and publish new and exciting papers on a (somewhat) regular basis. Sadly that time is long gone, but for […]
January 28, 2024
After our third job at the Oceanário de Lisboa, and a second job at Den Bla Planet, in Copenhagen, it was time for our TechAquarium partners […]
January 10, 2024
Congratulations Elke Herbots, on her final year as an M.Sc. Oceans & Lakes student at University of Brussels. It has been a lifelong dream of hers […]







