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Acknowledgements:

We acknowledge that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is located on, and has benefited directly from, the traditional and unceded lands of the Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) Peoples, while Dalhousie University operates in, and has benefited directly from, the un­ceded territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples. Funding for this research was provided by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund through the International Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPDF) Program award from the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) led by Dalhousie University. We want to sincerely thank Gabriel Reygondeau for graciously providing the NEREUS temperature preference data. We are particularly thankful to Mike Fogarty for his help with NOAA fisheries landings sources and his overall valuable insights. We gratefully acknowledge the helpful contribution of Charles Lavin in R coding and of Jane Weinstock in obtaining the SST data used in Fig. 1. We also thank Melissa Karp, Robert McGuinn, and Tim Haverland from NOAA for facilitating the sharing of shapefiles of fishery management council boundaries used in Fig. 1. Special thanks to Michael Lewis, Sarina Atkinson, Molly Stevens, Kyle Shertzer, and Matt Damiano at NOAA Fisheries for their assistance with South Atlantic landings. R.J. and J.P. gratefully acknowledge support from WHOI's Stanley W. Watson Chair for Excellence in Oceanography, while R.J. also thanks the support from NSF NES-LTER project (OCE-2322676). Finally, D.D. is forever grateful to Athanassios Tsikliras for the enlightening discussions and insightful ideas.