 The Izak catshark is regularly caught incidentally by a South African bottom trawl commercial fishery, but is discarded rather than utilized.Despite the fishing pressure, its population has been increasing and thus the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as Least Concern.The Izak catshark was originally described by South African ichthyologist John Gilchrist in a 1922 fisheries survey report.