Birdseye, Clarence (1886-1956), pioneered the development of packaged frozen foods. While on a fur-trading trip to Labrador about 1915, Birdseye noted that quickly frozen fish were flavorful and fresh when thawed. He first marketed quick-frozen fish in 1925. General Foods Corporation later acquired the process. Birdseye invented a food-dehydrating process in 1949. He acquired about 300 patents during his life. See also Food, Frozen.