diff --git a/ci/recipe/meta.yaml b/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
index c423ca694..ebc5e8388 100644
--- a/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ requirements:
     - pip
   run:
     - python >=3.9
-    - bottleneck
     - cartopy >=0.18.0
     - cartopy_offlinedata
     - cmocean
diff --git a/dev-spec.txt b/dev-spec.txt
index c24ed3e30..b8e2c43f1 100644
--- a/dev-spec.txt
+++ b/dev-spec.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 # Base
 python>=3.9
-bottleneck
 cartopy >=0.18.0
 cartopy_offlinedata
 cmocean
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a94532d3a..d2cd135ff 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@
 
 
 install_requires = \
-    ['bottleneck',
-     'cartopy>=0.18.0',
+    [ 'cartopy>=0.18.0',
      'cmocean',
      'dask',
      'gsw',