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 7, 2022
For many years we did our “Shark Course” in Peniche, but the pandemic got in the way of our latest edition, so… …”If the Mountain won’t […]
July 7, 2022
It seems we’re in Mola mola season, because after delivering two beautiful animals to Nordsoen in May, we just delivered our third Mola mola this year, […]
July 5, 2022
It’s been a busy busy busy June! So busy we neglected to share a bunch of significant news, but let’s try to catch up quickly! We’ll […]
June 18, 2022
Congratulations to Milene Guerreiro, who’s doing her Ph.D. on fish larvae communities along the Portuguese shoreline, hoping to better understand environmental factors that dictate their survivorship. […]
June 3, 2022
Remember Michelle Carpenter, who received 500 euros from us in December 2021?? Michelle just sent us an update on her South African mant ray project and […]
June 2, 2022
Seems like this was Photoshopped, but it wasn’t! Since February 2002 the Audi A4 Avant drove João’s dad around, until it became Flying Sharks’ official fish […]







