 It is threatened by fishing and by habitat destruction and degradation, particularly from blast fishing, coral bleaching, and siltation.Its numbers are known to have declined substantially in Indonesian waters, where it is one of the large rays targeted by a mostly unregulated gillnet fishery.The IUCN has given this species a regional assessment of Near Threatened in Australian waters, where it is not a targeted species but is taken as bycatch in bottom trawls.