Shipping container for sea worms

#The present invention relates to a container for the conditioning of sea (fishing) worms and to a process for the packaging of sea worms.

#Sea worms generally are packaged in small containers of varied shapes made up of at least one envelope that may be a box or a pot, covered or not with a lid, or also a bag. The materials used for these containers generally are plastic material, cardboard or others, associated among themselves or not.

#Inside this envelope, there is generally placed a moist support meant to supply to the living worms the moisture they need. The generally used supports for the packaging of fishing worms are algae, grasses, sand, soil, peat, mud or any other mineral material, etc.

#The present invention also relates to a process for the preservation of sea worms inside a container essentially made up of an envelope. According to this process, there is used a support the base of which is vegetable cellulose, to which there is added a complementary support, on which, when it is put into the envelope, the above-mentioned worms are placed.

#The support is made up of moistened sheets of paper, or of paper paste.

#Advantageously, said support is caused to undergo a degradation by fermentation prior to its being placed into the envelope.