The only conservation effort that has been implemented to save the blobfish is an attempted ban or halt on deep sea trawling and fishing, but this has not yet came to pass. The last time the blobfish was prominently sighted or reported was in 2006. With almost five years since then, it is a potential risk that the blobfish could already be extinct or if it does in fact still exist, its numbers are probably smaller than ever due to the large amount of deep see trawling that still plagues the waters in which it inhabits.