The Appellate Court ruled a lower court 'erred when it reached a contrary conclusion.'
The state’s own legislative history also supports this "liberal interpretation" to classify a non-aquatic bumblebee as a "fish" as under state law "the Commission may listThousands of bees swarm parked car at New Mexico grocery store
An off-duty firefighter helped remove a colony of bees that swarmed a vehicle parked at a supermarket in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Sunday, March 28, the Las Cruces Fire Department said. Before 1969, the law defined fish as "wild fish, mollusks, or crustaceans, including any part, spawn or ova thereof." That same year, the Legislature amended a section that defined fish to add invertebrates and amphibia. This section was changed only once, in 2015, when the state Legislature modified the definition to read "‘[f]ish’ means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.
"We acknowledge the scope of the definition is ambiguous," the judges added, the court documents showed.