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
March 13, 2022
Check out this beautiful Nephrops norvegicus that we shipped to Sea Life Timmendorfer Strand a few weeks ago! Many thanks for the cool post, Sylvie Böhme! […]
March 5, 2022
Congratulations José Trujillo, a Ph.D. student in Marine Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand, whose research is part of the Physioshark project. José is […]
March 1, 2022
It feels a lilttle strange talking about these things while the World is going nuts in Ukraine, but we just had to share a ray of […]
February 17, 2022
You’ve heard of the “School of Rock“, but you never heard of the School of Sharks, which is what our friends from Haus des Meeres just […]
February 12, 2022
Another day, another lecture, this time titled “Sharks in Danger”.This lecture was delivered at the “Introduction to Conservation Medicine” Conference hosted by our friend Jorge Francisco […]
February 9, 2022
It wasn’t easy, but we finally got our latest – and longest (!) – paper out, which describes 6 years of long-term transports of species as […]







