
Fig. 7. The increase in stride length (l) with both swimming speed and
fish fork length (FL) in chub mackerel at 18 °C (blue plane and
symbols) and 24 °C (green plane and symbols). Each symbol indicates the
l versus speed data for one individual. The maximum and minimum
values of speed and FL at 18 and 24 °C were used to solve the
multiple regression equation for stride length
(Table 2) for the four corners
of each plane. There was no significant effect of temperature on the
relationship between l and speed and FL (ANCOVA,
P>0.05).