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 2, 2022
We had an amazing time! Damn, we’ve been so incredibly busy that we have a months long backlog of cool non-posted stuff, but our good friends from WIREDmkt […]
November 12, 2022
Congratulations, João Rui Tanoeiro, a PhD student in biopolymer engineering, who just arrived in Ireland to study microalgae at the Technical University of the Shannon. A […]
November 3, 2022
Congratulations to Ashlie McIvor, a second-year PhD student of the University of Lisbon conducting research with MARE-Madeira (Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente). Ashlie […]
November 3, 2022
Here’s a quick story we almost forgot to share, because we’ve been so freakin’ busy!… On the 21st of October we flew 4 Myliobatis aquila and […]
November 1, 2022
Congratulations Manuel Seixas, a PhD student from CIIMAR, who traveled to València to present his work at Sharks International. Manuel’s poster, “Sharks’ Transcriptome: A Review on […]
October 19, 2022
Congratulations Joana Bernardino, who's studying anti-oxidant effects of Asparagopsis taxiformis algae collected in the Azores.







