diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index bd3013e34..64b5c88f4 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ my %common_reqs = (
     "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC" => "0.28",
     "Statistics::Descriptive" => "3.0608",
     "Statistics::Sampler::Multinomial" => '1.02',
-    "Text::CSV_XS" => "1.04",
+    "Text::CSV_XS" => "1.52",
     "Text::Fuzzy" => 0,
     "Text::Wrapper" => 0,
     "Tree::R" => 0,
diff --git a/cpanfile b/cpanfile
index 0b19425cd..1376f214f 100644
--- a/cpanfile
+++ b/cpanfile
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ requires "Spreadsheet::Read", "0.82";
 requires "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC", "0.28";
 requires "Statistics::Descriptive", "3.0608";
 requires "Statistics::Sampler::Multinomial", '1.02';
-requires "Text::CSV_XS", "1.04";
+requires "Text::CSV_XS", "1.52";
 requires "Text::Fuzzy";
 requires "Text::Wrapper";
 requires "Tree::R";
diff --git a/lib/Biodiverse/Common.pm b/lib/Biodiverse/Common.pm
index 5e1085437..be42ad335 100644
--- a/lib/Biodiverse/Common.pm
+++ b/lib/Biodiverse/Common.pm
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use if ON_WINDOWS, 'Win32::LongPath';
 #use Data::Dumper  qw /Dumper/;
 use YAML::Syck;
 #use YAML::XS;
-use Text::CSV_XS;
+use Text::CSV_XS '1.52';
 use Scalar::Util qw /weaken isweak blessed looks_like_number reftype/;
 use List::MoreUtils qw /none/;
 use List::Util qw /first/;