{"id":267462,"date":"2026-08-18T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:52:26","slug":"pennsylvania-fish-and-boat-commission-to-end-deputy-waterway-officer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267462\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to end deputy waterway officer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is ending its deputy waterways conservation officer program fresh off the heels of the PA game commission letting <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/pa-game-commission-ends-deputy-game-warden-program-140-employees-let-go-animals-workers-part-time-cuts-programs-pa-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">140 employees go last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Effective Tuesday, September 1, 2026, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission\u2019s Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer program will be ending,&#8221; a spokesperson with the commission told CBS 21 in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/pa-game-commission-ends-deputy-game-warden-program-140-employees-let-go-animals-workers-part-time-cuts-programs-pa-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PA Game Commission ends Deputy Game Warden Program letting 140 employees go<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Active deputies were told on Aug. 12 of the commission&#8217;s decision, according to the statement. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies have served as part of the law enforcement program for more than 100 years and the decision was not reached without intense consideration, the commission told CBS 21.<\/p>\n<p>The commission told CBS 21 that &#8220;cessation of the program&#8221; was a natural evolution of modern professional conservation law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/pa-game-commission-ends-deputy-game-warden-program-after-123-years-warden-state-hunting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PA Game Commission explains surprise decision to end deputy game warden program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PFBC has 36 active deputies statewide, the commission confirmed. Of the 76 patrol districts, 29 have deputies, and 10 districts have only two deputies. <\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the deputy waterways conservation program welcomed in 12 graduates in June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is ending its deputy waterways conservation officer program fresh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-267462","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\/267462","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=267462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}