A professional who breeds and raises earthworms for sale as fishing bait, garden soil conditioners, and food for exotic fish and animals. Respnsibilities include:

• Mixes sand, loam, and organic materials to make growing media for worms, fills growing tubs with media and adds water.
• Plants mature worms in growing media for breeding stock, spreads food materials over surface of media and covers it with burlap.
• Inspects food supply and moisture of growing media and adds water and food to maintain optimum breeding conditions for worms.
• Shovels worm-laden media onto screen and shakes screen to remove worms.
• Places specified number of worms into sales container and scoops required amount of growing media into container to sustain worms.
• Sells earthworms to buyers.
• May dry worms under heat lamps and grind and package them for sale as tropical fish food.