 It is caught incidentally on longlines and in gillnets and purse seines, though the paucity of captures suggest that it mostly lives in waters too deep for commercial fisheries.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed this species as Data Deficient, citing a lack of biological and population data.Since 1997, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has prohibited the taking of this species in United States waters.