{"id":254189,"date":"2026-07-29T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254189\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:27:07","slug":"pennsylvania-raises-minimum-trout-harvest-size-to-9-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254189\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania raises minimum trout harvest size to 9 inches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania raises minimum trout harvest size to 9 inches<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785284827_606_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Austin Boley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Pennsylvania Game Commission is implementing new regulations that raise the minimum harvest size for trout from 7 inches to 9 inches, starting January 1.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">You can view News 8 headlines in the video player above. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Anglers will still be allowed to catch trout smaller than 9 inches, but they will not be permitted to keep them.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Game Commission said that under the previous 7-inch limit, about 6.5% of sampled brook trout were large enough to keep.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">With the new 9-inch limit, less than 1% of sampled brook trout will be eligible for harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania raises minimum trout harvest size to 9 inches The Pennsylvania Game Commission is implementing new regulations that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108409,108410,28,9183,30,29,30168,108411],"class_list":["post-254189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-minimum-harvest-size-for-trout","tag-new-regulations","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-game-commission","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-trout","tag-trout-harvest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}