diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 5e8e36a99..e2a519055 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ numpy==1.19.4; sys_platform != "win32"
 numpy==1.19.3; sys_platform == "win32"
 scipy==1.5.4
 click==7.1.2
-cloudpickle==1.6.0
-dask[bag]==2.30.0
 lmfit==1.0.1
 numba==0.51.2
 pandas==1.1.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9ac4ec46b..66142d33f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 
 install_requires = [
     "click>=7.0",
-    "cloudpickle>=1.2",  # Needed by dask
-    "dask[bag]>=2.8",
     "lmfit>=0.9.13",
     "netCDF4>=1.5.3",
     "numba>=0.48",