U.S. Sen. John Kerry is out of step with the majority of his Massachusetts colleagues when it comes to the solution of the fishing crisis that brought a large insurgency to Washington, D.C., earlier this week.
Nearly all Kerry's congressional colleagues with fishing communities in their districts have announced support for a partial rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Act that would eliminate a requirement that all overfished stocks be restored at the same moment.
Kerry has avoided hinting at his opinion on that initiative, which was the main reason for the gathering of at least 5,000 people from fishing communities on all three of the nation's coasts, Wednesday at the Capitol.