Potential influence of offshore oil and gas platforms on the feeding ecology of fish assemblages in the North Sea

Acknowledgements. The author thanks OSPAR for providing data for offshore oil and gas structures in the North Sea and Imants G. Priede, Alan Jamieson, Jim Mair, Inigo Martinez, Michelle Horsfield, Anne Walls and all the crew members of BP’s Miller platform and the FRV ‘Scotia’, cruise 0912S, in particular Chief Scientist Finlay Burns, for invaluable advice and support in conducting this fish biology project. This work was coordinated by Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, and was supported by the BP Fellowship in Applied Fisheries Programme.