I started selling worms to my uncles’ bait shops,” he says. A little over a decade later, in 1970, the Revells got married. Audrey picked up the trade, and together they became city’s ...

Ragworm, which is one of the most effective sea-fishing baits, can sell for up to £36 per kilo through specialist bait suppliers – that’s around twice the high street price of a lobster.

Worm supplier Alice Haupert, ... National Bait rents land and fields and sends crews out to pick the worms. Every year, about $20 million worth of live worms are shipped to the U.S.