100,000 shrimp and they hope to harvest 500,000 pounds a year. why hasn't this been done before? >> well, the big issue is how you deal with the affluent within the system. >> reporter: the waste. >> exactly. >> reporter: here each tank is an ecosystem unto itself. waste water is naturally recycled in what they say is chemical free and never dumb pd into the environment. they won't say much more about how the system work. that's their secret developed at a remote lap lab in north dakota over the past eight years. so where are we now? >> right now we're in what we call our sort and ship facility. >> reporter: they will say they hope to take the idea far beyond vegas, putting these fresh shrimp farms and new jobs near every major city. you think that will sell. >> absolutely. >> reporter: you're counting on it. >> exactly. i'm counting on it big-time. >> reporter: tom foreman, cnn, apex, nevada. all right, it is 17 minutes