John Andrew Frank Garrick (24 March 1928 – 30 August 2018)[1][2] was a New Zealand ichthyologist.
Garrick specialised in elasmobranchs and published many books and articles about shark and ray biology.
Garrick was a zoology professor at Victoria University of Wellington, appointed to a personal chair in 1971.
[4] Garrick had a primary interest in the taxonomy of sharks and rays, and carried out the first exploratory deep-sea sampling using specially adapted cone nets, baited traps, and longlines, regularly to depths greater than 2000 metres.
He was responsible for the notable discovery of the first New Zealand specimens of orange roughy in 1957 (which subsequently formed the basis of a multimillion-dollar fishery).