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
August 5, 2023
Few things give us more pleasure than helping researchers around the world with their scientific efforts. You’ll remember that our team drove all night long, a […]
August 5, 2023
Another day, another order! This time we shipped a group of fiddler crabs, Uca tangeri, to University College London, where they are being studied by scientists […]
August 5, 2023
Remember our student friend Buddhi Maheshika, who received funding from us back in June? At the time she received 500 euros from us, as partial assistance […]
August 5, 2023
Remember when we drove back from Poland with a family of 7 Ukrainian refugees? Well, the first good news is that the 7 are now 8, […]
July 18, 2023
On the 6th of March 2008 (yes, that’s not a typo 😉 we were invited for a meeting in room ASP A3E2 of the European Parliament, […]
July 17, 2023
Remember when we moved some East Atlantic Sally Lightfoot Crabs from the Azores to Houston?? Our friends from Houston Zoo were so delighted to welcome these […]