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 9, 2023
Congratulations Jerónimo Fernandes (left) and Wadmilton Fernandes (right), two students from São Tomé and Príncipe. Jerónimo and Wadmilton are doing the Biodiversity, Fisheries and Conservation Master’s […]
February 1, 2023
Damn, that “21/10” in the title shows how incredibly busy we were last year, and how many important news items we forgot to add to our […]
January 31, 2023
…sometimes our Research Fund recipients have so much fun that they forget to send us their photos! This was the case with our friend Gerson Fortes, […]
January 31, 2023
Remember Michelle Carpenter (Research Fund 23/01), who received some funding from us a couple of years ago? Michelle just reached out and told us that the […]
January 30, 2023
Congratulations to Francisco Serra (Research Fund 23/01), a young soon-to-graduate Marine Biologist from E.S.T.M. who needed some funds so he could go study how to keep […]
January 28, 2023
Not every Flying Sharks day involves collections or transports. Some days are spent chatting to kids about… Shark conservation. Because sharks are getting decimated by commercial […]







