California bees can be fish and have the same protections, a court has ruled

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A California court has ruled bees can legally be considered fish under specific circumstances. Expanding the definition of fish to include invertebrates makes them eligible for greater protection from the Fish and Game Commission, the court wrote.

The ruling, released May 31, reversed an earlier judgment which found bumblebees could not be considered"fish" under the California Endangered Species Act.

In 2018, several public interest groups petitioned to list four species of bumblebee as endangered species under the California Endangered Species Act: the Crotch bumblebee, the Franklin bumblebee, the Suckley cuckoo bumblebee, and the Western bumblebee.

 

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The comments are hilarious cause you can tell how many people actually read the article and comprehended

The amount of people in this thread that can't understand this is for legal protection, and are actually believing Bee's are getting reclassification as fish, makes me just a little sad.

Animals that help people close to our life need to be protected

And they wonder why Cali has no water lol

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