{"id":26944,"date":"2025-09-12T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26944"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:34:27","slug":"mercer-county-conservation-district-receives-pa-fish-boat-commission-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26944","title":{"rendered":"Mercer County Conservation District Receives PA Fish &#038; Boat Commission Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26945 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fishing-at-Stephen-Foster-Lake-Mt.-Pisgah-State-Park-Troy-PA-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fishing-at-Stephen-Foster-Lake-Mt.-Pisgah-State-Park-Troy-PA-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fishing-at-Stephen-Foster-Lake-Mt.-Pisgah-State-Park-Troy-PA-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fishing-at-Stephen-Foster-Lake-Mt.-Pisgah-State-Park-Troy-PA-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Fishing-at-Stephen-Foster-Lake-Mt.-Pisgah-State-Park-Troy-PA.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) announced that it has awarded $196,832 in grant funding through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/services\/fishandboat\/r3-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R3 Education Grant Program<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Through this program, the PFBC will support 16 education projects in 10 counties to promote new and renewed interest in fishing and boating in Pennsylvania through the <strong>recruitment<\/strong> of new participants, <strong>retention <\/strong>of existing participants, and <strong>reactivation<\/strong> of former participants \u2013 collectively known as &#8220;R3.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>The Mercer County Conservation District received a grant for a \u201cFishing Skills Workshop Series.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>The next round of grants is expected to open for applications on September 15, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/fishandboat\/newsroom\/pfbc-awards-grants-to-support-education-projects-sep2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire press release.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) announced that it has awarded $196,832 in grant funding through its R3 Education Grant Program.\u00a0 Through this program, the PFBC will support 16 education projects in 10 counties to promote new and renewed interest in fishing and boating in Pennsylvania through the recruitment of new participants, retention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}