 The shark is infrequently caught in shark nets protecting beaches and by fisheries, which use it for meat and fins.The IUCN presently lacks adequate data to assess the conservation status of this species.German biologists Johannes Müller and Jakob Henle described the pigeye shark and named it "Carcharias (Prionodon) amboinensis" in their 1839 "Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen".