California Court Declares Bees Are Actually Fish

[Free Vulcan]

A California appeals court ruled Tuesday that bees can be classified as fish under the state’s Endangered Species Act (CESA) in a blow to agriculture groups.

The Sacramento-based three-judge panel ruled that four species of bumble bees found across California are technically fish since they are invertebrates, according to the decision in a case concerning the species’ protected status that pitted the state government against agriculture groups. The court added that the term fish shouldn’t be confined to “aquatic” invertebrates under the CESA.

“We acknowledge the scope of the definition is ambiguous but also recognize we are not interpreting the definition on a blank slate,” the appellate court’s ruling stated. “The legislative history supports the liberal interpretation of the Act (the lens through which we are required to construe the Act) that the Commission may list any invertebrate as an endangered or threatened species.”

https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/01/california-court-bumble-bees-fish-endangered-species/

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[rustynail]

Because they don't need a bicycle?

[Smokin Joe]

By that logic, half of the GOP COngress are also fish...(invertebrates)...

But sadly, we know that with the exception of the cartilaginous fish, fish have backbones.

Oh, science!  Gone to idiocracy.

[Kamaji]

[DefiantMassRINO]

Does that mean halibut are insects and that bees live in water?

[Fishrrman]

Once again, Fishrrman's credo:
Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be.

[libertybele]

Does that mean halibut are insects and that bees live in water?

....hmmm.... I wonder if they have 'bee' fishing poles??

[GtHawk]

Clearly the three judges that came up with this lunacy should be classified as sponges, because even though they have brains they function as though they don't. Am I wrong in guessing that this was a three judge panel of the infamous 9th Circus Court?