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 18, 2024
It was with enormous pleasure that we accepted the challenge from the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests and, last Saturday, July 13, a Flying Sharks […]
June 25, 2024
Remember our friend Shamil Debaere, who received funding from us in 2023 and 2021?? Samil’s been very busy with his PhD, studying chronic stress of sharks, […]
May 26, 2024
They said it couldn’t be done… but we did it! They also say “a picture is worth more than one thousand words”, so we’re just gonna […]
May 23, 2024
Here it is, at last, the final grant awarded this school year to students from ESTM! After Afonso and Miguel, who traveled to Malta… Fabiana and […]
May 11, 2024
With all our adventures and Research Fund awards, we hardly had any time to share some of our real work… …but there’s always time to share […]
May 9, 2024
We promise this will be the last of these “Research Fund 24/04” posts with students from ESTM. What can we say? We have a generous heart […]