Gortons Seafood Plant and Headquarters, Massachusetts

Gorton’s, in Gloucester, Massachusetts is the largest national brand of frozen fish, and a major provider of breaded whitefish to supermarkets and restaurants, including McDonald’s. Gorton’s is believed to be the inventor of frozen fishsticks, part of the legacy of food freezing innovation started by Clarence Birdseye, who began the frozen food industry by developing a flash freezing system at the General Seafood Company in Gloucester in 1926. Though located at the port in Gloucester, Gorton’s now uses mostly Pacific Pollock from Alaska, as local stocks of whitefish are now depleted. Gorton’s is owned by a Japanese company.