diff --git a/noodles-bam/Cargo.toml b/noodles-bam/Cargo.toml
index 6db5183d8..3a9539aba 100644
--- a/noodles-bam/Cargo.toml
+++ b/noodles-bam/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ async = ["dep:futures", "dep:tokio", "noodles-bgzf/async"]
 [dependencies]
 bstr.workspace = true
 byteorder.workspace = true
-bytes.workspace = true
 futures = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = ["std"] }
 indexmap.workspace = true
 memchr.workspace = true