Fatigue and exercise tests with fish

Hammer, Cornelius

doi:10.1016/0300-9629(95)00060-k

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“…We removed fatigued fish from the chamber and measured (TL), and weighed (g) them. Using the formula outlined in Beamish (1978) critical swimming speed was calculated and expressed both in absolute (cm sec )1 ) terms and in body lengths per second to account for variation in fish length (Hammer 1995). We used nested mixed model ANOVA to test for significant differences (p < 0.05) in untransformed absolute critical swimming speed (U-Crit) and length corrected swimming speeds (in body lengths (BL)/per second) among treatments.…”

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The energetic impact of overwinter prey assemblages on age-0 largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides

Ostrand¹,

Cooke

Garvey

et al. 2005

Environ Biol Fish

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SynopsisWe compared survival, growth, and swimming performance of two size classes of age-0 largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, in the spring after being fed diets of bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, or invertebrate prey during the winter. Regardless of prey assemblage, survival was uniformly high and independent of size. Length, wet-and dry-mass, and condition was also similar among treatments for both size classes. However, variation in individual performance differed, with the lowest variability in growth occurring among small age-0 largemouth bass in the invertebrate only treatment. Absolute and length corrected swimming speeds of largemouth bass were highest for invertebrate prey assemblages, intermediate for fathead minnow prey, and lowest for bluegill prey. The patterns in growth and spring swimming performance likely reflect the varied nutritive quality of different prey, the ability of largemouth bass to capture different prey, and competition with the piscine prey.

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The energetic impact of overwinter prey assemblages on age-0 largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides

Ostrand¹,

Cooke

Garvey

et al. 2005

Environ Biol Fish

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“…The energetic costs of propulsion (swimming) are influenced by a variety of environmental factors, propulsion method (swimming modes) and associated efficiency as well as physiological and morphological characteristics of the vehicle (species), Lighthill (1969); Allen et al (2000); Hammer (1995).…”

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Nature in engineering for monitoring the oceans: comparison of the energetic costs of marine animals and AUVs

Phillips

Haroutunian

Man

et al. 2012

Further Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles

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The range of physiological adaptations possessed by marine animals allowing them to successfully operate in the marine environment is a plentiful source of inspiration for the designers of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. This chapter compares the total energetic cost of straight line swimming for both marine animals and AUVs, using cost of transport (COT) as a comparative metric. COT is a normalised measure of the energetic cost of transporting the animal's or vehicle's mass over a unit distance. It includes non propulsion power requirements as well as considering the energy lost by actuators and mechanical couplings and energy lost in the wake. Comparisons presented in this chapter show that marine animals typically have higher optimum COT than engineered systems of equivalent size. However parallels may be drawn, for example, to increase range both marine animals and AUVs appear to favour reducing non-propulsion power costs and travelling slowly to ensure operating at the minimum COT.

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“…Since its proposition, critical speed has been intensely researched (Hammer, 1995), allowing powerful comparisons between the swimming capacity of all sorts of species.…”

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Swimming performance of the freshwater neotropical fish: Pimelodus maculatus Lacepède, 1803

Santos

et al. 2008

Braz. J. Biol.

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The present study used fixed and increasing velocity tests in an experimental apparatus based on Brett's respirometer to examine prolonged and sustained speeds of the "mandi-amarelo", Pimelodus maculatus. When comparing the curves of critical speed versus total length between the mandi and the sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka, it is observed that for an equal total length, the mandi presents a greater speed, probably due to water temperature differences. The sustained speed for the species was estimated in 5 lengths per second and the percentage of fatigued fish within time in a certain velocity was established. The data raised for the mandi represents an important contribution to the improvement of the handling of the species, providing guidance and criteria for designing several structures, such as fishways, fish screens and guidance systems.Keywords: critical speed, prolonged speed, fish passages. Capacidade natatória da espécie neotropical de água doce:Pimelodus maculatus Lacepède, 1803 ResumoNo presente estudo, foram utilizados testes de velocidade fixa e progressiva em um aparato experimental baseado no respirômetro de Brett, para examinar as velocidades prolongada e sustentável do mandi-amarelo, Pimelodus maculatus. Quando comparadas as curvas de velocidade crítica versus o comprimento do corpo entre o mandi e o salmãoOncorhynchus nerka, é observado que, para um mesmo comprimento, o mandi apresenta velocidades superiores, provavelmente devido a diferenças na temperatura da água. Foram estimadas a velocidade sustentável da espécie em cinco comprimentos por segundo e a porcentagem de peixes fatigados ao longo do tempo em uma dada velocidade estimada. Os dados obtidos para o mandi representam uma importante contribuição para o manejo da espécie, provendo critérios de projeto para a construção de estruturas como mecanismos de transposição e sistemas de proteção e orientação.Palavras-chave: velocidade crítica, velocidade prolongada, passagem de peixes.

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Fatigue and exercise tests with fish

Cited by 392 publications

References 137 publications

The energetic impact of overwinter prey assemblages on age-0 largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides

The energetic impact of overwinter prey assemblages on age-0 largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides

Nature in engineering for monitoring the oceans: comparison of the energetic costs of marine animals and AUVs

Swimming performance of the freshwater neotropical fish: Pimelodus maculatus Lacepède, 1803

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