The Relation of Size to Rate of Oxygen Consumption and Sustained Swimming Speed of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
- 1 June 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 22 (6) , 1491-1501
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f65-128
Abstract
The relation of size (log weight, g) to metabolic rate (log O2-uptake, mg 02/hr) of sockeye salmon was found to have a continuous change in slope (0. 78-0. 97) with increasing activity at 15 C. The slope of the equation relating the 60-min sustained swimming speed (log speed, cm/sec) to length (cm) had a value of 0. 50, demonstrating a rapid decrease in relative performance with increasing size.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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