New Zealand - Whanganui 1955: Noel Turner was born into a third-generation fishing & farming family and grew-up on the ocean and around cattle & sheep. Noel left school in 1971 at 16 years of age and started his own fishing business catching and selling fish. Noel pioneered the aquaculturing of wild Greenshell mussels in 1976, then processing them in his factory in 1978, then shipping and exporting the first container of Greenshell mussels ever out of New Zealand to the USA in 1982.
Noel single-handedly “main-streamed” mussels and calamari onto the menus of restaurants all across America in the 1980’s and 1990’s when no mussels or calamari were found on any menus, and the rest is history. Noel then moved onto Europe in 1994 and did the same. Noel visited over 30,000 restaurants all over the world between 1985 - 2024 promoting New Zealand seafood, shellfish, beef, and lamb.