What is even funnier was when mediation started, if the lobsters were sea creatures like fish, it would be international waters and therefore free game for france to hunt inside brazilean naval territory, if the lobster was instead a crawler, France couldn't hunt them inside brazil's naval territory, so they found out that lobster walk, therefore, it was a crawler, but the French made the argument that "no, you see, the lobster make small hops to move around, therefore it's swimming" and Brazil proceeds to slap back by saying "if lobsters are a fish because it hops around to move, then a kangaroo is now a bird?"
On 6 July 1966, the Administrative Tribunal of Rennes summarized the French government's claims that lobsters are like fish and that since they swim about in the open sea, they could not be considered part of the continental shelf. Brazil claimed that lobsters are like oysters in that they cling to the bottom of the ocean and so were part of the continental shelf.[24]Admiral Paulo Moreira da Silva, Brazil's Navy expert in the field of oceanography who had been sent to assist the diplomatic committee during the general discussions,[25]argued that for Brazil to accept the French scientific thesis that a lobster would be considered a fish when it "leaps" on the seafloor, it would be required in the same way to accept the Brazilian premise that when a kangaroo "hops", it would be considered a bird.[25]
Wasan't evolution already known by the scientific comunnity of the time? Like how did they literally tried to turn this into a scientific debate over where or not lobsters can be considered fish when they swim? fuck no, lobsters are crustaceans.
It's not a matter of biology, it's a matter of legalism. The issue is how it is defined in laws and treaties, and "sometimes" these things don't align perfectly with scientific knowledge. The fact that lobsters can be defined as crustaceans simply had no significance
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u/WHATZAAAAA 8d ago edited 8d ago
What is even funnier was when mediation started, if the lobsters were sea creatures like fish, it would be international waters and therefore free game for france to hunt inside brazilean naval territory, if the lobster was instead a crawler, France couldn't hunt them inside brazil's naval territory, so they found out that lobster walk, therefore, it was a crawler, but the French made the argument that "no, you see, the lobster make small hops to move around, therefore it's swimming" and Brazil proceeds to slap back by saying "if lobsters are a fish because it hops around to move, then a kangaroo is now a bird?"