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
January 29, 2022
Congratulations Adriana Oliveira, a young student from Porto who just recently completed her Master’s degree in Biological Aquatic Resources at the Faculty of Sciences of the […]
January 26, 2022
It wasn’t easy, but we managed to get more than one million signatures for the www.stop-finning-eu.org citizens initiative! All seemed lost around Christmas, with only one […]
December 24, 2021
Congratulations to Sara Cerqueira, who’s doing her Master’s at Universidade de Aveiro, studying movement patterns and behavior of ragged tooth sharks, Carcharias taurus, in the iSimangaliso […]
December 22, 2021
And what better way to end our best year ever than… Flying sharks??… And that us exactly what we did last weekend, when we chartered a […]
December 20, 2021
Dear clients, suppliers, partners, and friends, we’ll start by wishing you a glorious Holiday Season and a fabulous 2022! …and what better way to close our […]
December 13, 2021
Congratulations Michelle Carpenter, who reached out to us for some funding so she could focus her research on a new possible hotspot for manta rays in […]







