“…Distribution shifts of marine fish are related to climate change worldwide (Cheung et al., 2013; Last et al., 2011). In the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (SWAO), ocean warming is presumably responsible for a poleward shift of several essential fish stocks (Franco et al., 2020; Gianelli et al., 2023; Perez & Sant'Ana, 2022), increased sensitivity of commercially critical species (Gianelli et al., 2023), and long‐term replacement from cold‐water to warm‐water species in industrial fisheries of Uruguay (Gianelli et al., 2019). Evidence suggests that the Brazil Current is intensifying and shifting southwards, thereby causing intense ocean warming along its path, the South Brazil Bight, and in the Río de la Plata (Franco et al., 2020).…”