Fish swim in the water, bumblebees fly in the air. Okay, there are also flying fish and bumblebees that land awkwardly in the lemonade, but these are less the issue now and more about the chubby, fairly good-natured fellows who, thanks to a court ruling in California, are actually considered fish under certain circumstances .
The court ruling
California's Endangered Species Act was created to protect "native species or subspecies of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, or plants." What you don't find in it: bumblebees. And they are also at risk. So what to do? Include bumblebees in California law? Way too easy! Instead, decide that bumblebees are fish!
The ruling, released on May 31 (see HERE , PDF file), overturned an earlier ruling that bumblebees were not considered “fish” under the California Endangered Species Act. The question arose as to whether bumblebees, as terrestrial invertebrates, fall within the definition of fish as used in the law.
And that's where a loophole was found:
the law itself defines a "fish" as " a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or any part, spawn or ovum of any of these animals ." By expanding the definition of fish to include invertebrates, they can be controlled by the California Fish and Game Commission, the court said.
In 2020 it was still rejected
In 2020, the Sacramento County Superior Court found that the "invertebrates" listed in the definition of fish referred only to marine invertebrates - not insects such as bumblebees - and that the California Fish and Game Commission did not have the authority to include invertebrates in the fish within the framework of the law.
But the new ruling overturned that decision and determined that the term “fish” can include bumblebees, at least under California’s Endangered Species Act. Colloquially, fish are native to the sea, but the term “fish” is not restricted by this.
This means that endangered species in California, such as the Crotch bumblebee, the Franklin's bumblebee, the Suckley's cuckoo bumblebee, and the Western bumblebee, can now be effectively protected until they are explicitly listed by name in the California Endangered Species Act.
Source: CNN
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