Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren Thursday, describing herself as a champion for small businesses against the "corporate-industrial sector," said the struggle for survival of the mom-and-pop fishing businesses that dot the waterfront stands as a vivid cause for her to champion.
"It's not red state vs. blue state," that counts, she said during her second early-campaign visit to America's oldest seaport. Instead, she said, "it's big and little."
After Warren deflected questions from the Boston media aimed at sparking hour-to-hour, if not minute-to-minute, conflict with Republican incumbent Scott Brown, she allowed that — while she was still learning the essentials of national fisheries politics and economic theory — she was already certain the catch share system that is engendering hyper-consolidation in Gloucester and other ports is wrong.
Harvard professor and Oklahoma native's first hands-on and up-close tour of Gloucester's waterfront — the last port still fully committed to commercial fishing — Warren was guided past surf clams and sea urchins, squid and herring, blackback flounders, shrimp, cod and even a few monkfish livers at the Intershell International Corp. by Monte and Yibing Rome.
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