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California court rules that bees are a type of fish in order to protect them under the state's endangered species act
Insider ^ | Jun 1, 2022 | Mia Jankowicz

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bees; california; environmentalwacko; fish; linguisticgymnastics; newspeak; swingingonastar; woulduratherbeafish
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To: Exit148
It's fun to watch the doggy-paddle when you first put them in the tank -
but then they just - STOP...

I even put pink flowers in the tank, thinking it might help, but no...

81 posted on 06/01/2022 2:53:35 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Babylon Bee outdoes themselves again. They are now posting using other websites.


82 posted on 06/01/2022 2:57:22 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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...


83 posted on 06/01/2022 2:57:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Bumblebees identifying as fish. That’s perfectly normal these days. If you disagree, you are guilty of speciesism and will be hanged.


84 posted on 06/01/2022 2:58:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: packagingguy

bzztt/bzzzz/buzzzz


85 posted on 06/01/2022 2:59:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: Seruzawa

Why bother with laws at all? Or common sense? Or science?


86 posted on 06/01/2022 3:00:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: Tell It Right
A baby is a clump of cells.

So are adults.

But I now refer to democrats as "Ugly bags of mostly water".

87 posted on 06/01/2022 3:01:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

We should make the preservation of babies our prime directive.


88 posted on 06/01/2022 3:08:32 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

arbitrary law is no law.


89 posted on 06/01/2022 3:23:03 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: Tell It Right
Honestly we have to do so.

No babies, no future.

The only reason for civilization is the protection of pregnant women, babies and small children.

Everything else is gingerbread.

90 posted on 06/01/2022 3:24:34 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is the intersection of George Orwell with Timothy Leary. These people must be on something potent.


91 posted on 06/01/2022 3:24:54 PM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: jmcenanly

Timothy Leary’s dead.


92 posted on 06/01/2022 3:26:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Bees are fish isn’t as nutty as some of the things those morons come up with


93 posted on 06/01/2022 3:32:10 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.’


94 posted on 06/01/2022 3:33:01 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild
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.

95 posted on 06/01/2022 3:35:52 PM PDT by Lazamataz (ELON MUSK IS THE CORPORATE VERSION OF DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: dfwgator

I prefer Chicken of the Sea.


96 posted on 06/01/2022 4:03:55 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
This is really a bizarre ruling.

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.

97 posted on 06/01/2022 4:04:13 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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


98 posted on 06/01/2022 4:15:51 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sooooo...... what kind of bait should I use to catch them suckers?


99 posted on 06/01/2022 4:16:24 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

How could they know they aren’t fish. They are not biologists. Now they too qualify for the supreme court.


100 posted on 06/01/2022 4:23:20 PM PDT by pas
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