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
September 24, 2025
We said it before, and we’ll say it again: one of these days we’ll have to change our name to “Flying Sharks – and sea-turtles“, because […]
September 21, 2025
It all started with some captive bred Gadus morhua, in the distant 2003, while we assisted the good people from the Ílhavo Museum stock their aquarium, […]
September 21, 2025
Another day, another successful Flying Sharks transport, this time involving Scomber scombrus, Dasyatis pastinaca and Myliobatis aquila, with a new record of 1580 km driven in […]
August 15, 2025
Congratulations Beatriz Cunha, who applied for some funding to support her internship at Aquarium Pula. Beatriz was a student of our founder at ESTM, in Peniche, […]
July 22, 2025
What a pleasure it was to welcome our DGPM friends in Peniche last week! They came to see the half-million euros Mobile Station they helped finance […]
July 20, 2025
Sometimes it feels like we should call ourselves ‘Flying Turtles’, judging from the amount of sea-turtles that we rescued over the years! Last month we rescued […]