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
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 […]
November 12, 2023
Congratulations Noélia Rios, who worked for us back in 2015 and is now doing her Ph.D. on bioacoustics, assessing the impact of sound from boats on […]
October 30, 2023
Congratulations Jess Blakeway, a Ph.D. candidate working with the Marine and Terrestrial Megafauna Cluster at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and Jess wrote […]
October 30, 2023
We told you that we’re so impressed with TechAquarium’s work that we bough t a 1/3 share of the company and became partners, right? Well, after […]







