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
October 9, 2022
Apologies for our silence, but our clients are keeping us busy! We just returned from delivering 300 Scomber scombrus to Zoomarine, 500 to L’Ocearium du Croisic, […]
September 8, 2022
Need some Scomber scombrus?? This is the time of the year to get them, so feel free to drop us a line and we’ll make that […]
September 8, 2022
Interested in some Zeus faber?? Our friend Andres Loza, from Acuario do Grove has more than 20 large animals that he’d love to send to new […]
September 8, 2022
Congratulations to João Neves, who’s looking at the population structure of Scomber colias and needed to move some samples from the Azores to Universidade do Porto. […]
September 2, 2022
Remember our friend Daniel Fernando, who received funding from us back in 2018? Check out this amazing testimony he just sent us: In 2018, Flying Sharks […]
August 20, 2022
Some of you will probably recognize the name “Inês Morão” and rightfully so, because this former Marine Biology student of João’s, at ESTM, showed a keen […]







