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 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 […]
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 […]







