Taryn Garlock

EDUCATION

• 2015: Ph.D., Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida
• 2011:  B.S., Biology, University of Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• August 2023-present: Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Auburn University
• May 2020-August 2023: Assistant Research Scientist, University of Florida
• January 2016-May 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• United States Aquaculture Society
• World Aquaculture Society
• International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade
• Florida Chapter of the American Fisheries Society

RESEARCH

The long-term goal of my research program is to support profitable and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture at local and global scales. My work focuses on seafood markets, production economics, and management of fisheries and aquaculture systems.

EXTENSION

My extension program focuses on the aquaculture industries of Alabama. The primary objective of my extension activities is to provide economic information and tools that support better financial and business decision-making among aquaculture producers and other actors in the supply chain.

PUBLICATIONS

• Garlock, T., LaFontaine, Q., Asche, F. (2025). Public interest in aquatic foods in the United States: A study of internet search activity. Aquaculture, 609, 742862.
• Asche, F., Garlock, T., Anderson, J., Pincinato, R.B., Anderson, C., Camp, E., Jingjie, C., Cojocaru, A., Eggert, H., Lorenzen, K., Love, D., Tveterås, R. (2025). A review of global fishery performance. Fish and Fisheries, 26(3), 444-453.
• Anderson, J.L., Eggert, H., Garlock, T.M. (2025). Special issue Introduction—Aquaculture performance indicators: A low-cost tool for comparison and evaluation of data-scarce aquaculture sectors around the world. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 29(2), 131-135.
• Garlock, T., Anderson, J., Anderson, T., Kumar, G. (2025). Aquaculture in the United States: An analysis of seven aquaculture sectors from the Aquaculture Performance Indicators perspective. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 29(2), 304-322.
• Lijun, L., Anderson, J., Che, B., Chu, J., Garlock, T., Jingtao, X. (2025). Too Big to Be Sustainable? An analysis of China’s aquaculture sector in the three pillars of sustainability. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 29(2), 231-252.
• Nielsen, R., Guillen, J., Llorente Garcia, I., Asche, F., Garlock, T., Kreiss, C.M, Novakovic, S.V., Danatskos, C., Cozzolino, M., Pokki, H., Kanakainen, M., Dennis, J., Jackson, E., Mytlewski, A., Kulikowski, T., Rakowski, M., Tveteras, R. (2025). An analysis of the European aquaculture industry using the Aquaculture Performance Indicators. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 29(2), 253-274.
• Love, D.C., Brown, M.T., Viglia, S., Asche, F., Garlock, T.M., Jenkins, L., Nguyen, L., Anderson, J.L., Nussbaumer, E.M., Neff, R. (2025). Environmental Impacts and Food Loss and Waste in the U.S. Aquatic Food System. Global Environmental Change, 90, 102964.
• Anderson, J.L., Asche, F., Eggert, H., Garlock, T.M. (2025). Introducing the aquaculture performance indicators: A tool to assess the triple bottomline in aquaculture systems. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 29(2), 136-158.
• Garlock, T., Asche, F., Butler, C., Larkin, S., Matthews, T., Ross, E. (2025). Bioeconomic modeling of on-growing Caribbean spiny lobster in Florida. Aquaculture, 596(2), 741881.
• Guillen, J., Asche, F., Borriello, A., Carvalho, N., Druon, J.N., Garlock, T., Llorente, I., Macias, D. (2025). What is happening to the European Union aquaculture production? Investigating its stagnation, species diversification, and sustainability. Aquaculture, 596, 741793.
• Ferreira, J-P. Garlock, T., Court, C.D., Anderson, J.L., Asche, F. (2024). Economic contributions of seafood imports to the U.S. economy – A value chain perspective. Marine Policy, 169, 106375.
• Garlock, T., Ropicki, A. (2024). Aquaculture supply chains: Insights from mature and emerging industries.  Aquaculture Economics & Management, 28(3), 369-375.
• Love, D.C., Asche, F., Fry, J., Brown, M., Nguyen, L., Garlock, T.M., Nussbaumer, E.M., Sarmiento, G.L., Tveteras, S., Neff, R. (2024). Fisheries and aquaculture by-products: Case studies in Norway, United States, and Vietnam. Marine Policy, 167, 106276.
• Garlock, T., Asche, F., Anderson, J.L., Eggert, H., Anderson, T.J., Che, B., Chavez, C.A., Chu, J., Chukwuone, N., Nsukka, N., Dey, M.M., Fitzsimmons, K., Flores, J., Guillen, J., Kumar, G., Liu, L., Llorente, I., Nguyen, L., Nielsen, R., Pincinato, R., Surkatal, P.O., Tibesigwa, B., Tveterås, R. (2024). Environmental, economic, and social sustainability in aquaculture. Nature Communications, 15, 5274.
• Ropicki, A., Garlock, T., Farzad, R., Hazell, J. (2024). Recirculating Aquaculture System-Based Production as a Pathway to Increase Aquaculture in Developed Countries: The Case of United States Aquaculture. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 28(3), 515-536.
• Garlock, T., Asche, F., Butler, C., Matthews, T., Ross, E. (2024). Price variation in Caribbean spiny lobster: Incentives for on-growing wild-caught lobsters in Florida. Fisheries Research, 273, 106960.
• Marin, C., Asche, F., Garlock, T., Kristofersson, D.M., Lorenzen, K., Olugbenga, M.A., Yang, B. (2024). Does Seafood Trade Enhance Seafood Availability in Developing Countries? The case of Nigeria. Marine Policy, 161, 106030.
• Fry, J. P., Scroggins, R.E., Garlock, T.M., Love, D.C., Asche, F., Brown, M.T., Nussbaumer, E., Nguyen, L., Jenkins, L.D., Anderson, J., Neff, R.A. (2024). Application of the food-energy-water nexus to six seafood supply chains: Hearing from wild and farmed seafood supply chain actors in the U.S., Norway, and Vietnam. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1269026.
• Love, D.C., Asche, F., Fry, J., Nguyen, L., Gephart, J., Garlock, T.M., Jenkins, L.D., Anderson, J., Brown, M., Viglia, S., Nussbaumer, E.M., Neff, R. (2023). Aquatic food loss and waste in the United States is half of earlier estimates. Nature Food, 4, 1058-1069.
• Garlock, T., Asche, F., Anderson, J.L., Hilsenroth, J., Lorenzen, K., Pincinato, R.B.M., Tveterås, R. (2023). Global and regional determinants of diversity in blue foods. Reviews in Fisheries Sciences and Aquaculture, 31(4): 523-534.
• Botta, R., Garlock, T., Asche, F., Camp, E.W., Ropicki, A. (2023). The value of product attributes for farmed oysters: A hedonic price analysis of U.S. restaurant menus. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2(2): 295-305.
• Love, D., Asche, F., Gephart, J.A., Zhu, J., Garlock, T., Stoll, J.S., Anderson, J., Conrad, Z., Nussbaumer, E.M., Thorne-Lyman, A.L., Bloem, M.W. (2023). Identifying opportunities for aligning production and consumption in the U.S. fisheries by considering seasonality. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture, 31(2), 259-273.
• Anderson, J.L., Asche, F., Garlock, T., Hegde, S., Ropicki, A., Straume, H.M. (2023). Impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. seafood availability. Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 21(1), 1-9.
• Asche, F., Straume, H.M., Garlock, T., Johansen, U., Kvamsda, S.F., Nygård, R., Pincinato, R.B.P., Tveterås, R. (2022). Challenges and opportunities: Impacts of COVID-19 on Norwegian Seafood exports. Aquatic Living Resources, 35(15).
• Lorenzen, K., Camp, E.V., Garlock, T. (2022). Natural mortality and body size in fish populations. Fisheries Research, 252, 106327.
• Moor, J., Ropicki, A., Garlock, T. (2022). Clam aquaculture profitability under changing environmental risks. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 26(3), 283-300.
• Garlock, T., Anderson, J.L., Asche, F., Smith, M., Camp, E., Chu, J., Lorenzen, K., and S. Vannuccini. (2022). Global insights on managing fishery systems for the three pillars of sustainability. Fish and Fisheries, 23(4), 899-909.
• Pincinato, R.B.M., Gasalla, M.A., Garlock, T., Anderson, J.L. (2022). Market incentives for shark fisheries. Marine Policy, 139, 105031.
• Garlock, T., Asche, F., Anderson, J.L., Ceballos-Concha, A., Love, D.C., Osmundsen, T., Pincinato, R. (2022). Aquaculture: the missing contributor in the food security agenda. Global Food Security, 32, 100620.
• Asche, F., Garlock, T., Camp, E., Garcia, L., Guillen, J., Karunakaran, G. (2022). Market opportunities for U.S. aquaculture producers: the case of branzino. Marine Resource Economics, 37(2), 221-233.
• Asche, F., Yang, B., Gephart, J.A., Smith, M.D., Anderson, J.L., Camp, E.V., Garlock, T.M., Love, D.C., Oglend, A., Straume, H.M. (2022). China’s seafood imports – not for domestic consumption? Science, 375, 386-388.
• Love, D., Asche, F., Young, R., Nussbaumer, E.M., Anderson, J., Botta, R., Conrad, Z., Froehlich, H.E., Garlock, T.M., Gephart, J.A., Ropicki, A., Stoll, J.S., Thorne-Lyman, A.L. (2022). An overview of retail sales of seafood in the United States, 2017-2019. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture, 30(2), 259-270.
• Asseng, S., Palm, C.A., Anderson, J.L., Fresco, L., Sanchez, P.A., Asche, F., Garlock, T.M., Fanzo, J., Smith, M.D., Knapp, G., Jarvis, A., Adesogan, A., Capua, I., Hoogenboom, G., Despommier, D.D., Conti, L., Garret, K. (2021). Implications of new technologies for future food supply systems. Journal of Agricultural Science, 159, 315-319.
• Eggert, H., Anderson, C.M., Anderson J.L., Garlock, T.M. (2021). Assessing global fisheries using Fisheries Performance Indicators: Introduction to Special Section. Marine Policy, 125, 104253.
• Asche, F., Garlock, T.M., Akpalu, W., Amaechina, E.C., Botta, R., Chukwuone, N.A., Eggert, H., Hutchings, K., Lokina, R., Tibesigwa, B., Turpie, J.K. (2021). Fisheries Performance in Africa: An analysis based on data from 14 countries. Marine Policy, 125, 104263.
• Doria, C.R.C., Dutka-Gianelli, J., de Sousa, S.T.B., Chu, J., Garlock, T.M. (2021). Understanding impacts of dams on the small-scale fisheries of the Madeira River through the lens of the Fisheries Performance Indicators. Marine Policy, 125, 104261.
• Garlock, T., Nguyen, L., Anderson, J., Musumba, M. (2020). Market potential for Gulf of Mexico farm-raised finfish. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 24(2): 128-142.
• Garlock, T.M., Asche, F., Anderson, J., Bjørndal, T. Lorenzen, K., Kumar, G., Ropicki, A., Tveterås, R. (2020). A global blue revolution: Aquaculture growth across regions, species and countries. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 28, 107-116.