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California Court Rules That Bees Are Fish​


Insects aren't a category protected by the California Endangered Species Act. So state officials classified four bumblebee species as fish to get them listed.​


 

ok doser

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California Court Rules That Bees Are Fish​


Insects aren't a category protected by the California Endangered Species Act. So state officials classified four bumblebee species as fish to get them listed.​


Sounds about right for California
 

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California Court Rules That Bees Are Fish​


Insects aren't a category protected by the California Endangered Species Act. So state officials classified four bumblebee species as fish to get them listed.​




This is humorous - but interestingly, and more seriously, connected to the larger subjects of almond growing in California (CA provides 80% of the world's almonds and almond growers are a major water consumer), the collapse of bee colonies, and it's not nearly as absurd as it seems:

"Legally, a fish refers to 'a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.' Because bumblebees are invertebrates—a protected subset of fish—the Fish and Game Commission argued that they could reasonably be designated as fish per the CESA's terms."

How it's connected:

The demand for pollinator-dependent crops like almonds, blueberries and apples, has grown 300 percent globally in the past 50 years, according to a recent study in Environmental Science & Technology. But the authors of the report, from the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State, found that the areas of the United States most reliant on insect pollinators for high-value crops also tended to have poor habitat for pollinators, with regular use of pesticides and a lack of plentiful, diverse flowering plants.
 

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ok doser

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"Legally, a fish refers to 'a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.' Because bumblebees are invertebrates—a protected subset of fish
97% of all animal species are invertebrates.

By this reasoning California authorities can justify virtually any actions to save earthworms or spiders or mosquitoes or ...
the Fish and Game Commission argued that they could reasonably be designated as fish per the CESA's terms."
This argument should have been rejected as being unreasonable. I suspect on appeal it will be determined that the original language of the statute in question referred to the invertebrate stage of fish, or to those invertebrates that occur in aquatic or Marine environments
 

marke

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This is humorous - but interestingly, and more seriously, connected to the larger subjects of almond growing in California (CA provides 80% of the world's almonds and almond growers are a major water consumer), the collapse of bee colonies, and it's not nearly as absurd as it seems:

"Legally, a fish refers to 'a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.' Because bumblebees are invertebrates—a protected subset of fish—the Fish and Game Commission argued that they could reasonably be designated as fish per the CESA's terms."

How it's connected:

The demand for pollinator-dependent crops like almonds, blueberries and apples, has grown 300 percent globally in the past 50 years, according to a recent study in Environmental Science & Technology. But the authors of the report, from the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State, found that the areas of the United States most reliant on insect pollinators for high-value crops also tended to have poor habitat for pollinators, with regular use of pesticides and a lack of plentiful, diverse flowering plants.
Bumblebees, puppies, kittens, and walking humans are protected by laws. Babies that are too young to walk are not protected.
 
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