![]() ![]() Fortunately, the 2022 ruling overturned the previous decision, and not a moment too soon. The Sacramento Supreme Court rejected the petition in 2020, finding that the invertebrates clause referred to strictly marine invertebrates only. The matter started in 2018 with several interest groups submitting a petition to designate the Crotch, Franklin, Suckley cuckoo, and Western bumblebees-all endangered- under the Act. Designed to protect “native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, or plant,” the California Endangered Species Act doesn’t explicitly include insects, but specifies fish as “.wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn or ovum of any of those animals.” Therefore, it can be argued that as invertebrates, native Californian bees count as fish, and thus can be listed under the Act and receive extended protections from the Fish and Game Commission. ![]() In May 2022, California’s Third District Court of Appeal ruled bees can be legally designated as fish.
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