Rob Van Gemert

My research focusses on stock assessment and optimising fisheries management. For this, I make use of a diverse range of quantitative mathematical models to assess stock status and evaluate the outcome of specific management actions.

Since January 2021 I work on the stock assessment of the European eel at SLU Aqua's Sötvattenslaboratoriet.

van Gemert, R., Holliland, P., Karlsson, K., Sjöberg, N., Säterberg, T. (2024). Assessment of the eel stock in Sweden, spring 2024; Fifth post-evaluation of the Swedish eel management. Aqua reports 2024:5. Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Arlinghaus, R., Rittweg, T., Dhellemmes, F., Koemle, D., van Gemert, R., Schubert, H., Niessner, D., Möller, S., Droll, J., Friedland, R., Lewin, W.C., Dorow, M., Westphal, L., Ehrlich, E., Strehlow, H.V., Weltersbach, M.S., Roser, P., Braun, M., Feldhege, F. & Winkler, H. (2023). A synthesis of a coastal northern pike (Esox lucius) fishery and its social-ecological environment in the southern Baltic Sea: implications for the management of mixed commercial-recreational fisheries. Fisheries Research, 263, 106663.

Olsson, J., Andersson, M. L., Bergström, U., Arlinghaus, R., Audzijonyte, A., Berg, S., Briekmane, L., Dainys, J., Ravn, H.D., Droll, J., Dziemian, L., Fey, D.P., van Gemert, R., Greszkiewicz, M., Grochowski, A., Jakubavičiūtė, E., Lozys, L., Lejk, A.M., Mustamäki, N., Naddafi, R., Olin, M., Saks, L., Skov, C., Smoliński, S., Svirgsden, R., Tiainen, J. & Östman, Ö. (2023). A pan-Baltic assessment of temporal trends in coastal pike populations. Fisheries Research, 260, 106594.

Sundin, J., Jacobson, B., van Gemert, R., Persson, J., Myrenås, E., & Jacobson, P. (2023). Stress hos europeisk ål under sumpning och transport: effekter av fångst and transport. Aqua notes 2023:25. Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

van Gemert, R., Koemle, D., Winkler, H., & Arlinghaus, R. (2022). Data‐poor stock assessment of fish stocks co‐exploited by commercial and recreational fisheries: Applications to pike Esox lucius in the western Baltic Sea. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 29(1), 16-28.

Dekker, W., van Gemert, R., Bryhn, A., Sjöberg, N., & Wickström, H. (2021). Assessment of the eel stock in Sweden, spring 2021: fourth post-evaluation of the Swedish eel management. Aqua reports 2021:12. Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Visser, A. W., Brun, P., Chakraborty, S., Dencker, T. S., van Denderen, P. D., van Gemert, R., van Someren Gréve, H., Heilmann, I., Holm, M. W., Jónasdóttir, S. H., Kenitz, K. M., Kiørboe, T., Lindegren, M., Mariani, P., Nielsen, L. T., Pancic, M., Payne, M., Pécuchet, L., Schnedler-Meyer, N. A., Thygesen, U. H., Törnroos, A., Andersen, K. H. (2020). Seasonal strategies in the world’s oceans. Progress in Oceanography, 189, 102466.

Sparholt, H., Bogstad, B., Christensen, V., Collie, J., van Gemert, R., Hilborn, R., Horbowy, J., Howell, D., Melnychuk, M. C., Pedersen, S. A., Sparrevohn, C. R. (2020). Estimating Fmsy from an ensemble of data sources to account for density dependence in Northeast Atlantic fish stocks. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa175

Färber, L., van Gemert, R., Langangen, Ø., Durant, J. M., & Andersen, K. H. (2020). Population variability under stressors is dependent on body mass growth and asymptotic body size. Royal Society open science, 7(2), 192011.

van Gemert, R. (2019). Improving the calculation of fisheries reference points: Influences of density dependence and size selectivity (Doctoral dissertation, DTU Aqua, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

van Gemert, R., & Andersen, K. H. (2018). Challenges to fisheries advice and management due to stock recovery. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(6), 1864-1870.

van Gemert, R., & Andersen, K. H. (2018). Implications of late-in-life density-dependent growth for fishery size-at-entry leading to maximum sustainable yield. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(4), 1296-1305.