van der Reijden
Marine Ecology & Fisheries

Who am I?

My career history

2025 onwards
van der Reijden Marine Ecology & Fisheries
Focus on data curation, statistical analyses, scientific writing, and scientific advice
2023 – 2024
Scientific assistant with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Focus on scientific assessments of bottom trawl impacts and related advice
2022 – 2024
PostDoc at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua)
Focus on mapping bottom trawl distribution and its impacts
2016 – 2021
PhD-candidate at the University of Groningen (UG)
Focus on seafloor communities and habitat disturbances in the North Sea
2014 – 2016
Fisheries Researcher at Wageningen Marine Research (WMR)
Focus on the discarding practices (quantity, composition, distribution) of the demersal fisheries

Past and ongoing projects

Contribute to the ICES workshop to evaluate options for setting seafloor quality thresholds (WKBENTH4)
Chairing the ICES workshop on scoping input to inform seafloor quality threshold setting (WKD6SCOPE)
Scientific analysis + publication on seal bycatch mitigation measures by the Danish Pelagic Producers Organization and the Pelagic Freezer trawler Association.
Analysis on fishing activity in closed areas for the North Sea Foundation
Scientific analysis + publication on trawling activity in hypoxic areas in collaboration with DTU Aqua

Scientific publications

Here is a list of my 5 most recent publications. You can find my complete publication list on orcid.

Assessment of bottom trawl impacts on the status of seabed communities in European Seas (2026) Fish and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1111/faf.70054
From bycatch to litter: a systematic map of the ecological impacts of fishing in European seas (2026) Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1007/s11160-025-10013-4
A gear component approach to trawling impact and sediment mobilisation assessments (2025) ICES Journal of Marine Science. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaf106
European coastal monitoring programmes may fail to identify impacts on benthic macrofauna caused by bottom trawling (2023) Journal of Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117510
Improving seabed substrate mapping with high-resolution bottom trawl data (2023) Marine Environmental Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.105935