 An aplacental viviparous species, females bear litters of seven to 25 pups every other year.The angelshark normally poses little danger to humans, though if provoked, it is quick to bite.Since the mid-20th century, intense commercial fishing across the angelshark's range has decimated its population via bycatch – it is now locally extinct or nearly so across most of its northern range, and the prospects of the remaining fragmented subpopulations are made more precarious by its slow rate of reproduction.