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Shark Supply LLC is one of the companies founded by Ken Moran to supply live sharks for public display. It currently serves aquaria around the world and has, in the past 3 years, expanded well beyond its original mission of just supplying sharks and rays. With the growth and success of micro-aquaria and micro-zoos, Shark Shark Supply LLC began offering more species of animals to these clients. Not just adding the importation of Indo-Pacific fish, molluscs, elasmobranchs and crustaceans, Shark Supply LLC began to offer reptiles, some land mammals (domestic and imported), aquatic mammals, some birds and Marine mammals. Boasting a clientel in over 14 states in America alone, the expansion currently operates under the Shark Supply LLC banner but may expand into new companies speciallizing in certain programs. There are plans for breeding certain mammals and birds in addition to Captive breeding of fish and elasmobranchs.

The expansion to meet client demand over the last 2 years expanded the company's role of consultation from to shark tank design to program and concept design, specialty display creation, staff training and equipment supply. With the high requirements for marine mammal trainers, we have implemented a "train the trainer" program, filtration design and review as well as equipment rental and sales. With goals to expand our display and exhibit designs with new concepts to the industry, we have built up a one-stop-shop for small aquarium start-ups. We can supply basically any aquatic animal in the world common to the trade as well as even impossible to get any-where-else fish, birds, reptiles and sharks. We work with breeders around the world to supply the widest variety of turtles and crocodiles possible as well as jaguars and other zoo animals. We are expanding our lines of aquatic mammals in 2019 to include more varieties of otters and possibly minks. We offer sales of display backgrounds, tanks, and filtration systems for these animals as well as aquariums.

Shark Supply LLC now offers some tropical birds, freshwater fish and stingrays. We supply zoos in other countries not just the US. Our marine mammal program offers California Sea Lions and consultation for compliance with USDA and Marine Mammal Protection Act standards for display of marine mammals. We not only can design your display for these animals but can train your staff, assist you with permitting and compliance as well as proved the animals. Also, the procedes from this expansion help fund our marine mammal rescue program. We have expanded our Shark Bait food offering to much more food options and are currently exploring and designing self sustainable food systems for aquariums and micro-zoos. There is much more to come in 2020. JUST WATCH!

Most important is our environmental footprint, or lack thereof.  We have strived over the years to minimize our impact on the environment as much as is possible.  We have few if any losses during a year of operation.  We take as few fish as possible.  We do not stock a large volume of sharks that have not been ordered!  We challenge the federal and state resource management departments constantly to rework their regulations in a way to help us reduce our take and the overall impact of fishing on the wild stocks of fish in South Carolina and the USA.  We specifically collect and recommend sizes and species of fish that have good populations in a way to preserve the current stocks.  We have a large capacity to provide big displays, all with a footprint that has NO negative impact on the environment.

OUR FOUNDER

Ken Moran, has supplied sharks to public aquaria as well as private aquaria and aquarists.   Among them are the Arecibo Lighthouse Aquarium of Puerto Rico, NC Public Aquariums, Mare Nostrum of France, and a public aquarium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  He has collected, handled and transported all kinds of marine species for live display as well as fresh water species, reptiles, and insects.  His career collecting sharks for display began with collecting 6 foot to 10 foot large sharks for public display.  Since that time, the increased demands of the private sector for sharks for private husbandry have lead him to help pioneer the collection and transport of small species.

He has even lead the way in introducing new species of small coastal sharks into the aquarium industry.  In the 1990's he pushed for the embracing of Sharpnose sharks, hammerhead sharks and then Mini-bull sharks for display.  He proved that the Bonnethead Hammerhead shark species and Scalloped hammerheads could be air shipped when it was said to be impossible. In addition to the small species, he has demonstrated his abilities with the large ones.  Ken was the first collector to transport and keep a hammerhead for display in America.

His record of standing behind the animals he collects and delivers has made a name with his customers and researchers alike.  Ken understands the importance of quality animals and quality handling.  He insists on our live arrival guarantee.  In the past ten years we had zero infections and no parasitic issues.  This is due in part to the volume of sharks available and Ken's eye for picking the best of the catch for retention.  Ken does not handle or collect sharks with notable parasites or deformities.  He picks the best and healthiest specimens.  When collecting pups, he targets healthier pups.  Runts and sickly looking animals are released.  Having begun his college career as a marine biology major, he understands the basics of genetics and breeding as well as shark physiology.  He looks for fish that have the highest probability of survival.

Ken has no problem catching sharks in season (though weird length and size/sex requests are not recommended).  Therefore, you do not get the only shark he could catch.  You get a shark picked out of the total catch that looked the best of that day.  The sharks that do not look happy in the confines of the transport tanks in the boat are released and not landed.  Then, the shark is placed in quarantine until it adapts to the aquarium, feeds and defecates.  If any problem or potential problem is noticed, the shark is released rather than sold.  There are too many other sharks in the ocean to sell a shark that does not appear to be adapting well to captive life.

He also minimizes the stress to the animals as much as possible.  He avoids damaging the sharks during collection and transportation.  His special training and experience provides him a keen sense of how his sharks are doing during handling.  Even researchers rely on his ability to sense the viability of a shark during handling (this is very important when using expensive tracking tags).  They know that he can usually tell if an animal is not doing well or is not likely to survive the collection process.  This ability is not a skill learned simply from fishing.