Posted on 06/01/2022 1:20:30 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Judges ruled on Tuesday that bumble bees can be classed as fish under California environmental laws.
This unlocks protections for the state's four endangered bumble bee species.
The ruling clarifies the state's confusing classification in its environmental protections.
A trio of judges in California said on Tuesday that bees can be legally classed as a type of fish as part of a ruling that brings added conservation protections for the endangered species.
"The issue presented here is whether the bumble bee, a terrestrial invertebrate, falls within the definition of fish," the judges wrote in their ruling. And, they concluded, it does.
Formerly, the problem for bee-lovers — and lovers of all Californian terrestrial invertebrates — was down to the way protected animals have been classified in the state's laws.
Although four different bee species were classified as endangered in 2018, land invertebrates are not explicitly protected under the state's Endangered Species Act (CESA), which protects endangered "native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant."....
They also argued that land-based invertebrates have been protected under the category of "fish" under the statute in the past, such as in 1980 when the Trinity bristle snail was protected.
The judges described how California's legislature has wavered for years over whether or not to explicitly include invertebrates in the Act, presumably saving them the trouble of having to expand the definition of fish.
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I even put pink flowers in the tank, thinking it might help, but no...
Babylon Bee outdoes themselves again. They are now posting using other websites.
Well, why not?
Boys are girls and girls are boys...
All blacks are saints and all whites, asians, & jews are evil...
Guns are bad and the people who commit murder with them are victims...
Bumblebees identifying as fish. That’s perfectly normal these days. If you disagree, you are guilty of speciesism and will be hanged.
bzztt/bzzzz/buzzzz
Why bother with laws at all? Or common sense? Or science?
So are adults.
But I now refer to democrats as "Ugly bags of mostly water".
We should make the preservation of babies our prime directive.
arbitrary law is no law.
No babies, no future.
The only reason for civilization is the protection of pregnant women, babies and small children.
Everything else is gingerbread.
This is the intersection of George Orwell with Timothy Leary. These people must be on something potent.
Timothy Leary’s dead.
Bees are fish isn’t as nutty as some of the things those morons come up with
I just came back from fishing. I caught nothing and was using squid for bait. I should have used pollen but couldn’t figure out how to get it to stay on the hook.
Perhaps it is because I still use ‘master’ as the primary branch on my github repositories rather than ‘main.’
Who told you to use 'main'?
And when it comes to bee fishing, your repository model is what matters most.
I prefer Chicken of the Sea.
I would wager that IF we could know all the facts involved here, we would find that some entity wants to do something with their land, and the state does not want them to (follow the money!).
Declaring bees as fish in order to "protect" them, allows the state control over the entity's land use.
As disgusting as it is, you can’t be surprised by the ruling. We’re talking about a bunch of people who think men can get Knocked Up
Sooooo...... what kind of bait should I use to catch them suckers?
How could they know they aren’t fish. They are not biologists. Now they too qualify for the supreme court.
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