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 14, 2026
Congratulations to Kathryn Ayres, Research Scientist at Beneath The Waves and Pelagios Kakunja, who received 500 euros from our Flying Sharks Research Fund to support her […]
March 13, 2026
We just returned from our very first trip to Chile and what an adventure that turned out to be! Our destination was Santiago and the mission […]
March 13, 2026
Congratulations to Chiara Gambardella, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at Università Politecnica delle Marche, in Ancona, Italy, who reached out […]
February 22, 2026
It was at the 2013 EUAC meeting that we downed a few gin & tonics with our friends from Dynasty Marine and Cairns Marine. At first […]
February 22, 2026
Remember our friend Issah Seidu, from Ghana, who received some funding in 2019 and then sent us the papers he published after? This year Issah reached […]
February 22, 2026
Congratulations to Lucy Clarke, a Ph.D. researcher from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, who reached out to us after hitting […]







