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
January 10, 2024
Remember when we released Iona back in October 2023?… Turns out that it was such a successful operation that our friends from Dingle Oceanworld asked if […]
December 17, 2023
Back in June we received a request from Flossy Barraud, who had just been accepted to do a couple of oral presentations at the World Conference […]
December 9, 2023
Another year comes to an end, and what a year 2023 was… We broke two records, by shipping 58 of our “XL” boxes to Sea World […]
December 1, 2023
Last Summer we were contacted by our good friend Jennie Janssen, Assistant Curator at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Jennie told us that, this October, the […]
November 29, 2023
On September 1st, the Big Kahuna was almost reaching Nazaré for a working lunch while listening to an incredibly interesting report on the radio. In that […]
November 29, 2023
It seems 2023 is the year of all records! Last April we shipped 58 of our “XL” boxes to Sea World Abu Dhabi, after packing all […]