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Fig. 4 | Animal Biotelemetry

Fig. 4

From: The fate of intracoelomic acoustic transmitters in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) post-smolts and wider considerations for causal factors driving tag retention and mortality in fishes

Fig. 4

Scatterplot representing a relationship between an individual Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) post-smolt’s change in Log10 body mass with its change in Log10 fork length over a period of 92 days. Animals were treated as either a surgical sham or implanted with a V7 or V8 acoustic tag. A linear mixed effects model was fit to the data with the change in Log10 fork length as a product of the change in Log10 body mass, tag type, surgeon, and sex as the fixed effects, and holding tank as a random effect. Statistical significance was accepted at α = 0.05. Changes in Log10 fork length were found to be the product of changes in Log10 body mass (P < 0.001), whereas both tagging treatment and sex had no effect. The black line represents the overall relationship of the change in Log10 body mass with its change in Log10 fork length independent of tagging or sex effects

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Animal Biotelemetry

ISSN: 2050-3385