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
May 7, 2022
The Ocean ProTec.Lab was a short-term course on knowledge exchange between workers from traditional sectors (including shipbuilding/ship repair), entrepreneurs, trainers and early-career skilled youngsters, and we […]
April 23, 2022
Needless to say that all clients are important to us but, after many years and probably hundreds of messages exchanged with our good friends from The […]
April 16, 2022
Due to the construction of a +5km bridge connecting the maldivian islands of Male, Villingili, Gulhifalhu and Thilafushi affecting their coral reefs, the local NGO Save […]
April 15, 2022
Remember that we don’t just collect and ship fish all over the World, right? For example, last month we spent a day with the students from […]
April 9, 2022
…ou melhor, a família ucraniana que trouxemos de Przemysl, foi capa do Público no dia 8 de abril. Dos muitos transportes que já fizemos ao longo […]
April 9, 2022
Remember our friend Issah Seidu, who got 940 euros from us back in 2019, while doing his Ph.D. on the ecology, biology, climatic parameters and conservation […]







