It is extensively used as a fishing bait by millions of sea anglers fishing from the shore or from small boats.
Operating close to the power station is a fishing bait company, Seabait.
All individuals of A. caliginosa were collected by hand digging in a garden soil near the city of Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria), while L. terrestris was obtained from a fishing bait shop in Vienna.
A scavenger hunt for fish bait turned into a desperate five-day mission by a West Sacramento man to return home.
(The script has been at least slightly Americanized; one of the characters uses a yellow gummy bear for fish bait, instead of a pickled-onion Monster Munch. Which is some sort of a corn snack, methinks).
Two easel-scale works on canvas, smoothly painted in saturated colors, Early Italian Renaissance style, show spear-wielding Arctic amazons stalking men and lowering a hogtied man into an ice hole as fish bait.
The species came into further prominence as an economic resource through the fish bait trade, notably in North America, where astonishing numbers are gathered from Canadian golf courses for domestic bait use and export to the United States of America [3].
