Species differed in both induction time and recovery time after accounting for differences in body size. Total length residuals for induction time (observed minus predicted) differed significantly among species (ANOVA P ≤ 0.0005). Pairwise comparisons ofmeans for TL residuals showed that flounder had significantly longer induction time than all other species ( P < 0.05). Silverside, snook, red drum, and pompano were not significantly different from each other ( P > 0.05). Because recovery time was not significantly related to body size, we compared species based on unadjusted values and found one difference. Recovery time for silverside, the species with the longest recovery time, was significantly different from pompano, which had the shortest recovery time (Table 1). The range of induction times (maximum − minimum) was greatest for adult red drum and the range for other species was < 0.05, Fig. 2a), butthere was no difference in their recovery time ( P = 0.86, Fig. 2b). The range of values for induction time for fatigued fish was much less than for rested fish. The trend for recovery was the opposite; fatigued fish had a much larger range of values for recovery time than rested fish.