 Night sharks suffer high bycatch mortality on longlines, and prohibited or not, some are kept by fishers because of their value and the difficulty of identifying disembodied parts to species.Nevertheless, a 2003–2008 NMFS population assessment concluded that night shark population in United States waters has stabilized (perhaps even increasing) and no longer merits categorization as a "species of concern", though recommended that the prohibition on retention be maintained as a precautionary measure.This species should also benefit from the imposition of time/area closures in the Florida Straits and on the Charleston Bump.