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
June 8, 2025
It’s been a long and gruelling process, beginning back in October 2020, but we take great pleasure in celebrating this year’s World Oceans Day by sharing […]
May 31, 2025
Congratulations to Esther Asantewaa, a young student from Ghana, who’s doing her MPhil in Wildlife and Range Management at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and […]
May 18, 2025
You may remember this name from 2023, when Wadmilton, and a fellow colleague from São Tomé & Príncipe received some funding to cover tuition for their […]
April 6, 2025
Another day, another beautiful Flying Sharks order! This time we shipped quite a few captive bred Scyliorhinus stellaris, Scyliorhinus canicula and Raja undulata to our friends […]
March 31, 2025
Many thanks to our friends from SEA LIFE Porto and SEA LIFE Blankenberge for choosing Flying Sharks to move two Rhinoptera bonasus from Portugal to Belgium […]
March 25, 2025
Remember our awesome “Mobile Station“, that we’ve been raving about for five years?? Guess what’s ready to rock & roll and about to embark on its […]