Emergency rule changes are critical rule changes that require immediate action and are good for 120 days or less. These are the emergency rule changes filed by WDFW in 2024.
December
- Willapa Bay tributaries recreational fishing rule
- North Coast/Olympic Peninsula rivers and tributaries recreational fishing rules
- Grays Harbor and central coast tributaries recreational fishing
November
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Nooksack River recreational salmon
- Fox Trapping Season
- Commercial sea urchins
- Recreational razor clams
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Prohibited level 1 species
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons areas 12 and 12B
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial beach seine seasons Area 12C
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River recreational sturgeon
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons Area 12C
- Special Hunt Permits
- Snohomish, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Wallace rivers, and Tokul Creek recreational fishing seasons
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine seasons
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine seasons
- Repealer of Fire Restrictions of Lincoln, Whitman, and Spokane counties
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
October
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons, areas 10, 11, 12, and 12B
- Puget Sound commercial sea urchins
- Recreational salmon and fishing seasons for Snohomish, Skykomish, Wallace, and Snoqualmie rivers
- Marine Area 13 and Kennedy Creek recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine seasons
- Recreational razor clams
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound commercial salmon purse seine seasons
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound commercial salmon fisheries, areas 7 and 7A
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- Columbia River Hanford Reach recreational salmon
- North Fork Toutle River recreational salmon
- Dungeness River recreational fishing seasons
- Fox trapping seasons
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Cascade River and Skagit River recreational fishing
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Upper Columbia River and Methow River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Cascade River recreational fishing seasons
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Puget Sound commercial sea urchins
- Skagit River recreational fishing seasons
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- Eastside WDFW access areas
- Skagit River recreational
- Stillaguamish River recreational fishing returns to permanent rules
September
- Eastside WDFW access areasWSR 24-20-099 filed on
CR-103E supplemental documents
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Upper Columbia River recreational salmon
- Hoh River, including South Fork and tributaries recreational fishing
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- Elochoman River recreational fishing
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Blue, Deep, and Park lakes of Grant County gamefish seasons
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Drano Lake recreational salmon and steelhead
- Stillaguamish River recreational salmon
- West Medical Lake trout and other gamefish
- Puget Sound commercial gillnets, Area 6D
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Hoh River, including South Fork and tributaries recreational fishing
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Skagit River recreational fishing
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- Upper Columbia River and Icicle River recreational salmon seasons
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- Snohomish watershed recreational fishing seasons
- Marine Area 8-2 recreational salmon
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Skagit River recreational fishing closure
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial reef nets
- Puget Sound commercial reef nets
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Columbia River commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Yale Reservoir recreational salmon
- Feeding prohibition for deer, elk, and moose
- Recreational salmon daily limits in Quillayute River system
- Puget Sound commercial salmon beach seine seasons
- Marine Area 11 recreational salmon
- Deschutes River recreational fishing
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Columbia River treaty commercial salmon seasons
- Columbia River commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Area 12C commercial beach seine seasons
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp trawl seasons
August
- Costs of providing public records
- Marine Area 8-2 recreational salmon
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Coastal commercial crab fishery
- Deer, elk, and moose hunting and salvaging reporting
- Puget Sound commercial Beach Seine fishery
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Deer, elk, and moose hunting and salvaging reporting, transporting and use of bait requirements
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp seasons
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Columbia River treaty commercial gillnets
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Columbia River commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Upper Columbia River, Chelan River, and Entiat River recreational salmon
- Rimrock Reservoir (Lake) and South Fork Tieton River gamefish
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Puget Sound recreational salmon, areas 7 and 10
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Puget Sound commercial gillnets, areas 7B and 7C
July
- Puget Sound recreational salmon, areas 7, 9, and 10
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Puget Sound Commercial Shrimp pot fishery
- Marine Area 5 recreational salmon
- Wenatchee River recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Marine Areas 10 and 11 recreational salmon
- Coastal recreational bottomfish
- Skagit River salmon seasons
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Recreational halibut seasons
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Upper Columbia River recreational salmon
- Lake Wenatchee sockeye
- Skagit River recreational salmon
- Special Hunt Permits
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Puget sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Puget Sound recreational shrimp
- Cowlitz River, Klickitat River, Lewis River recreational fisheries
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Entiat River recreational salmon
June
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Southern Resident killer whale vulnerable individual designations
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Puget Sound recreational salmon
- Cascade River and Skagit River recreational fishing
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Department land use - wildfire prevention
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp trawl fishery
- Snohomish basin recreational fishing update
- Puget Sound Recreational shrimp
- Puget Sound recreational salmon
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Coastal commercial crab fishery
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Snohomish Basin recreational fishing
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Fox trapping seasons
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- May Creek (tributary of Wallace River) recreational fishing
- Puget Sound recreational shrimp
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Columbia River Treaty Indian fishery
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Skagit River and Cascade River recreational salmon
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
May
- Crop and livestock damage compensation
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Puget Sound recreational shrimp
- Columbia River and Deep River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Drano Lake, Cowlitz, Kalama, Klickitat, Lewis, and Wind rivers recreational salmon
- Columbia River, Deep River recreational salmon
- Nooksack River and all forks recreational fishing
- Skagit River, Cascade River, Marine Area 13 recreational salmon
- Marine Area 8-2, Marine Area 11 recreational salmon
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Coastal salmon troll seasons--Commercial
- Icicle River recreational salmon
- Snohomish River system recreational fishing
- Puget Sound and Skagit River recreational salmon
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Recreational razor clams
April
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Coastal commercial crab
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Recreational razor clams
- Skagit River salmon seasons
- Marine Area 5 recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Coastal commercial crab
- Puget sound recreational salmon (Marine areas 10 and 11)
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Puget Sound Recreational shrimp
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Recreational razor clams
March
- Coastal rivers and tributaries recreational fishing rules
- Recreational halibut seasons
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Puget Sound recreational salmon
- Coastal commercial crab
- Recreational razor clams
- Kopachuck State Park recreational clams, mussels, and oysters
- Commercial sea urchins
- Recreational sturgeon
- Recreational halibut seasons
- Salmon Creek (Clark Co.) hatchery steelhead
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Commercial sea urchins
- Commercial sea urchins
- Recreational razor clams
February
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Recreational smelt
- Coastal commercial crab
- Columbia River Treaty fishery above Bonneville
- Commercial coastal crab
- Columbia River recreational sturgeon
- Columbia River recreational salmon
- Puget sound recreational salmon
- Recreational clams, oysters and mussels
- Wildlife trapping seasons
- Commercial sea urchins
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River commercial salmon (below Bonneville)
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Recreational eulachon smelt
- Columbia River Treaty Indian fishery
- Puget Sound commercial crab gear
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Recreational razor clams
January
- Commercial smelt
- Recreational razor clams
- Coastal commercial crab
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Sauk and Skagit rivers recreational steelhead
- Recreational razor clams
- Recreational sturgeon
- Coastal commercial crab landings