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July 26, 2022
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In news only California could bring us, its Third Appellate District Court of Appeal has officially ruled that bees meet the legal definition of fish, and therefore are protectable under a state conservation law. In an article titled “Bees Aren’t Fish, But It’s Good California Thinks They Are” (yes, really), NBC explains that California’s Endangered Species Act applies to anything that can be considered “a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant.” Unfortunately for bees, none of those categories apply to them.
Except the California Fish and Game Code inexplicably defines “fish” as “a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.” Which, ipso facto, makes bees– as invertebrates– fish (although, apparently, not someone’s pet fish?).
Why California, with a supermajority in literally every branch of their state government, felt like they had to go through this kind of mental gymnastics instead of just updating the Endangered Species Act to say “and insects” is beyond me. Then again, mental gymnastics is kind of the left’s thing, so it’s possible they forgot there are other ways of thinking.
In any case, the bees buzzy fish have won this round. They’re doing alright, but can someone check on California and make sure the humans there are okay?
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Thank you for inquiring. They are doing their best to make sure humans will not be alright, particularly farmers…which will hit everyone else also. The favorite is howl and wail and put aside more and more water for the fish…even though that has never helped them before. If I were a farmer, or perhaps just a little better off and better organized, I would raise funds for lawyers and sue someone(s), with that stack of proof it doesn’t work and the damage they do to normal people….and the whole farming thing, with its necessity, its dramatically high contribution to the state economy, and the fact that most of the ground water was pumped out to keep farms, animals–and ecology–alive.
Well, in the U.S. tomatoes are legally vegetables so I suppose bees can be fish too. But does that mean beekeepers need a fishing license to start a new hive?
Legislators doing their job? Clearly they have other problems that need tackled such as systemic racism or some other problem that they’ve associated with their political opponents.