{"id":265237,"date":"2026-08-14T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:02:07","slug":"pennsylvania-raises-trout-harvest-minimum-to-nine-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265237\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Raises Trout Harvest Minimum To Nine Inches |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trout.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-360199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARRISBURG \u2014 Pennsylvania anglers will face a larger minimum size for keeping trout beginning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/promail.ptd.net\/calendar\/day\/1767263654920\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 1<\/a>. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has increased the statewide harvest minimum from seven inches to nine inches.\u00a0 The change is aimed largely at protecting Pennsylvania\u2019s native brook trout.<\/p>\n<p>Commission research found only a small percentage of wild brook trout reach even seven inches.\u00a0 Officials say the new rule could protect more than 99 percent of wild brook trout from harvest. Most stocked trout already average about 11 inches, so hatchery anglers should see little impact.\u00a0 More info at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pa.gov\/agencies\/fishandboat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pa.gov\/agencies\/fishandboat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG \u2014 Pennsylvania anglers will face a larger minimum size for keeping trout beginning\u00a0January 1. The Pennsylvania Fish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-265237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265237","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=265237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}