Carlena Brown

Coming up... It's kind of like if you work with dogs or anything like that, you get to go out and get to see your dogs.

Well, I get to go out and see my shrimp.

Whatever makes you happy.

My name's Carlana Brown.

I'm the co-owner of RDM Shrimp, or RDM Aquaculture, and we are located in Fowler, Indiana.

We raise saltwater shrimp indoors, inland.

When we started, we were actually the third one in the entire U.S.

Right now, the only ones that work the shrimp are myself and my son.

It's kind of like if you work with dogs or anything like that, you get to go out and get to see your dogs.

Well, I get to go out and see my shrimp.

So on a daily basis, I run nine different tests on my tanks.

We sell shrimp out the front door.

And as long as we balance and maintain the water, the shrimp do just fine.

We average about 500 pounds of shrimp per month on the 20-count shrimp, and we sell it at $22 a pound.

We might run out for a week or two throughout the year.

It could be either an Easter.

It could be around Christmas time.

But this year we ran out four times.

Our average customer drives about two hours just to get two to four pounds of shrimp.

But I do have one lady who drives from Columbus, Ohio, which is six hours one way to my facility.