There is little information available on catch or bycatch of Cuban dogfish, mainly because there are few deep-water fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Approximately 490 sharks were reported as bycatch from 2006–2012 in the reef-fish demersal longline fishery observer data and 91% of those are released alive (Gulak and Carlson 2013). This species may also be caught in directed tilefish fisheries that operate as deep as 300 m and it is reported among the bycatch of as the royal red shrimp trawl fishery in the US Gulf of Mexico that operates at depths of 250–550 m (Stiles et al. 2007, Driggers et al. 2015, E. Scott-Denton pers. comm. 12/05/2020). Demersal trawling occurs on relatively restricted fishing grounds adjacent to home ports (Stiles et al. 2007). Observer coverage in the royal red shrimp fishery has also been low (Scott-Denton et al. 2012) and so bycatch information is scarce and reported as presence/absence. Information is lacking on the post-release survival from commercial gear, however, a study conducted in the Bahamas reported post-release survival from research longlines of around 50% (Talwar et al. 2017).