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PUBLICATIONS
Submitted/In Review
Duplisea, D.E., Eddy, T., Robertson, M.D., Ruiz-Díaz, R., Solberg, C.A., & Zhang, F. The ghosts of overfishing past that haunt the effectiveness of present day fisheries management and potential solutions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Robertson, M.D., Cadigan, N.G., Nirmalkanna, K., & Wheeland, L. Impact of starvation-induced mortality on the collapse and lack of recovery of American plaice on the Newfoundland Grand Banks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Robertson, M.D., Embke, H.S., Lynch, A.J., Midway, S.R., and Paukert, C.P. Inland recreational fisheries harvest far exceeds reported inland harvest in the United States. Nature Communications.
West, H., Wudrick, A. Vajas, P., Robertson, M.D., Eddy, T.D. Harp seals have a greater impact than fisheries in the stalled cod recovery in Newfoundland & Labrador. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Published

Wszola, L, Sievert, N.A., Lynch, A.L., Embke, H.S., Kaz, A.L., Robertson, M.D., Midway, S.R., & Paukert, C.P. 2024. Lake temperature and morphometry shape the thermal composition of recreational fishing catch. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 153(6), 746–762. https://doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10481

Robertson, M.D., Cadigan, N., Regular, P.M., Koen-Alonso, M., Bélanger, F., Cyr, F., Zhang, F., & Eddy, T. 2024.Testing models of increasing complexity to develop ecosystem-informed fisheries advice. Fish and Fisheries. 25(3), 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12820


Robertson, M.D., Midway, S.R., Embke, H.S., Kaz, A.L., Lang, M., Paukert, C., Sievert, N.A., Wszola, L., & Lynch, A.J. 2024. Estimating inland recreational fisheries catch and effort throughout the United States. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 31:e12650. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12650
Sievert, N.A., Lynch, A.J., Embke, H.S., Robertson, A., Lang, M., Kaz, A.L., Robertson, M.D., Midway, S.R., Wszola, L, & Paukert, C.P. 2023. CreelCat: A National Compilation of United States Inland Creel and Angler Survey Data. Scientific Data. 10 (762). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02523-2

Eddy, T.D., Duplisea, D., Robertson, M.D., Ruiz-Diaz, R., Solberg, C.A., & Zhang, F. 2023. Barriers to implementation of dynamic approaches in fisheries management. FACETS. 8, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2022-0216

Midway, S.R., Brum, J., & Robertson, M.D. Show and tell: Approaches for effective figures. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 8(2), 213-219. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10288

Robertson, M.D., Regular, P.M., & Cadigan, N. 2022. Limited temporal variability in natural mortality for juvenile American plaice on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Science. 53, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.2960/J.v53.m738

Cadigan, N., Robertson, M.D., Nirmalkanna, K., & Zheng, N. 2022. The complex relationship between weight and length of cod off southern Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Fisheries Aquatic Sciences. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2021-0325

Robertson, M.D., Koen-Alonso, M., Regular, P.M., Cadigan, N., & Zhang, F. Estimating prey dynamics using predator diet data: A case study for Northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) on the Grand Bank off Newfoundland. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(4), 880-893 https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13795

Regular, P.M., Buren, A.D., Dwyer, K.S., Cadigan, N.G., Gregory, R.S., Koen-Alonso, M., Rideout, R. M., Robertson, G.J., Robertson, M.D., Stenson, G.B., Wheeland, L. J., & Zhang, F. Indexing starvation mortality to assess its role in the population regulation of northern cod. Fisheries Research, 247, 106180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106180

Midway, S.R., Robertson, M.D., Flinn, S., and Kaller, M.D. (2020). Comparing multiple comparisons: practical guidance for choosing the best multiple comparisons test. PeerJ. e10387. https://doi.org//10.7717/peerj.10387

Robertson, M.D., Gao, J., Regular, P.M., Morgan, M.J., & Zhang, F. (2021). Lagged recovery of fish spatial distributions following a cold-water perturbation. Scientific Reports. 11, 9513. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89066-x

Zheng, N., Robertson, M.D., Cadigan, N., Zhang, F., Morgan, M.J., & Wheeland, L. (2020). Spatiotemporal variation in maturation: A case study in American plaice
(Hippoglossoides platessoides) on the Grand Bank off Newfoundland. Canadian
Journal of Fisheries Aquatic Sciences, 77(10),1688-1699. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0017

McCormick, A., Robertson, M.D., Brasso, R, & S.R. Midway. (2020). Mercury concentrations in store-bought shrimp. Journal of Food Science & Nutrition, 8, 3731–3737. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.1659

Robertson, M.D. & Midway, S.R. (2019). Predicting coastal fishing community characteristics in Tanzania using local monitoring data. Journal of Environmental Management, 246, 514-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.05.082



Robertson, M.D., Midway, S.R., West, L., Tillya, H., & Rivera-Monroy, V.H. (2018) Fishery Characteristics in Two Districts of Coastal Tanzania. Ocean & Coastal Management: 163, 254-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.06.015

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