Sentence:  The meeting formed a committee to investigate and make recommendations to 'counteract the shark menace'. ... [T]he committee ... suggested that 'drastic penalties could be inflicted on surfers who bathed at dangerous hours or swam out far enough to earn the title of "<WSD>shark bait</WSD>"'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A lone swimmer or surfer far from shore, a shark baiter.