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 27, 2022
At the end of 2021, we expanded our 15 years old “Research Fund” and created the Flying Sharks Humanitarian Fund. At the time we were (sadly) […]
March 27, 2022
Last week we were delighted to travel to Fjärilshuset – Haga Ocean, in Stockholm, and deliver six gorgeous blacktip sharks, Carcharhinus melanopterus. Although we’re huge fans […]
March 26, 2022
Congratulations Jéssica Ferreira, who’ll spend 3 months in South Africa studying the seasonality of elasmobranch species in the iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area, which includes South African […]
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 […]







