It is used in fishing sinkers.

Environmental concerns surround the usage of lead and other materials in fishing sinkers.

An ideal material for a fishing sinker is environmentally acceptable, cheap and dense.

Lead based fishing sinkers are banned in all of US and Canadian National Parks.

Do lead fishing sinkers threaten the environment?

Sandsinkers are lead-free fishing sinkers made of fabric and filled with sand.

But to do harm it must be chemically transformed; otherwise a depleted uranium shell remains not much more threatening than a leaden fishing sinker.

For example, it can replace lead as a dense material in fishing sinkers.

Then she said she was out in the barn looking for fishing sinkers and hadn't heard a thing.

Birds of prey may eat dead or injured prey killed with lead shot or fishing sinkers.