 I started this when I was 10 years old. My dad moved on to this operation and worked for Doyle Kennedy who owned it and started it back in the mid 1960s. But, and just kinda grew up here, went to high school here at Corning and through the years I went to college for a little while but always loved the fish farm and what it meant to my family. And so I came back and went to work for Doyle full time and helped him run the operation. And I guess I started managing it really in about 2005. And then in 2018, Doyle decided that he was gonna get out of it and he sold it to me. And so, you know, I'm kind of a new guy when it actually comes to owning it and all the problems that come with it. You know, I'm a little unique up here. I don't sell a lot of fish to process and plants. Most of my market is to pay lakes which is where people go to fish, take their families and it just kind of brings me a little joy to know that, yeah, you know, it takes me two to three years to raise this fish, you know, and that family may not get but an hour's enjoyment out of it but still it brings me pride to know, you know, because I can remember times when I was a kid, you know, when my dad would take me fishing, you know, it's just some of the best memories of my life and that's what it's all about. You know, it was probably in the early 90s, the first time there was a real big surplus of fish. Well, then the processors, they started kinda cutting the farmer's throats. I mean, they were offering prices that wouldn't even come close to covering the cost. So we kinda got to looking and being up further north like we are, we had a little bit of an advantage to some of the northern markets. They didn't wanna drive as far to get the fish. They could come here and it, you know, nothing smart on our part, it was just luck of the draw kinda where we were located and we hooked up with some people and we've always been honest and we found some good honest customers and we've just worked together for 30, 35 years now. So, you know, it's nothing special, kind of a God thing I think, you know, he'll take care of you if you let him. We have haulers coming here, live haulers come in and I would say 95% of my fish go to that market where those fish are going somewhere to be put in a recreational pond or, you know, a private recreational pond or a public, like one of those pay lakes, you know, where it's a business, you know, those people are making a living and that's why this industry is important and why it needs to stick around, you know, we raise a quality product and that kinda makes us proud, you know. I always tell people, when you go to a restaurant, wherever you go, ask them where the fish come from because there's guys like me out here that do this every day that we appreciate that, you know, cause we're not just blowing a horn out here saying we got a premium product, we really do. I mean, we do and I just want people to know that and that we appreciate them asking the questions that they need to ask.