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
July 14, 2023
Meet our friend Asparagopsis taxiformis Tetrasporophyte! Now that’s a mouthful! Let’s break down its meaning, shall we? “Asparagopsis taxiformis” is a species of seaweed which is […]
July 14, 2023
Busy busy days at Flying Sharks ! Here’s a shipment of 200 Bathymodiolus azoricus (mussels) which were collected by a German Research Vessel from an hydrothermal […]
July 14, 2023
Congratulations Max Klier, who just finished his MSc at the Université Côte d’Azur, while conducting ecosystem modeling of the mesopelagic food web of the Azores. The […]
July 1, 2023
Congratulations to Joana Fernandes, a Ph.D. student from the University of Aveiro, who’s focusing her studies on Biology and Ecology of Global Changes. Joana was traveling […]
June 30, 2023
Not all Flying Sharks.eu orders involve glamorous animals and complex logistics… But sometimes a canceled flight and two boxes full of marine sediment in dry-ice headed […]
June 8, 2023
A few weeks ago we shipped our largest order ever (in boxes) to our friends from SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, and we’ll take this time to congratulate […]







