Presently, the porcupine ray is caught incidentally in trawls, tangle nets, and beach seines.

The bumpnose trevally is of minor importance to fisheries throughout its range, caught using hook and line, bottom trawls, beach seines and various fish traps.

Even subsistence fisheries at the edge of its range in Brazil show a catch of 388 kg in two years from beach seines.

A wide variety of fishing gear is used, including longlines, bottom trawls, trammel nets, gillnets, traps, beach seines, and hook-and-line.

The species is of minor economic importance, often taken amongst other tropical midwater fishes by hook and line, while juveniles are occasionally caught in beach seines.

Juveniles are occasionally taken by beach seines.

This species is of no current interest to local fisheries, although beach seines may take minor amounts of this species.

This inshore species of fish is commonly taken by fishermen using beach seines and is sold fresh in local markets.

Bottom dragging gear such as beach seines can damage corals by abrasion and fracturing.

Common stingrays are caught incidentally by commercial fisheries across many parts of its range, using bottom trawls, gillnets, bottom longlines, beach seines, and trammel nets.