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 20, 2025
Sometimes it feels like we should call ourselves ‘Flying Turtles’, judging from the amount of sea-turtles that we rescued over the years! Last month we rescued […]
July 20, 2025
Another day, another three Flying Sharks shipments to the UK, namely to our friends at Sea Life Hunstanton, Lake District Coast Aquarium and Anglesey Sea Zoo. We […]
July 20, 2025
Congratulations to Oriana Bernardo, who got accepted by the Zeehondencentrum Pieterburen, a sea rehabilitation center in the Netherlands. Oriana, who is soon to become a marine […]
July 11, 2025
Shortly arrived from its maiden voyage to Morocco, our ‘Mobile Station’ embarked on a nearly 8.000 km journey that began in Peniche, and then drove us […]
June 21, 2025
Congratulations to Zoë Fodderie, an M.Sc. student who is researching chronic stress in neonatal small spotted catsharks in the Flanders Marine Institute (Ostend, Belgium) over a […]
June 21, 2025
Did you know that Flying Sharks welcomed and recovered close to 100 (!) sea-turtles at the Porto Pim Aquarium since its opening in June 2013? Click […]