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.
November
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons areas 12 and 12B
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Prohibited level 1 species
- Puget Sound commercial beach seine seasons Area 12C
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons Area 12C
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River recreational sturgeon
- Snohomish, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Wallace rivers, and Tokul Creek recreational fishing seasons
- Special Hunt Permits
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine seasons
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine seasons
- Repealer of Fire Restrictions of Lincoln, Whitman, and Spokane counties
October
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- 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 and gillnet seasons, areas 10, 11, 12, and 12B
- Recreational razor clams
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine seasons
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound commercial salmon purse seine seasons
- 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
- Fox trapping seasons
- Dungeness River recreational fishing seasons
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Cascade River and Skagit River recreational fishing
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- 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
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Puget Sound commercial sea urchins
- Skagit River recreational fishing seasons
- Skagit River recreational
- Stillaguamish River recreational fishing returns to permanent rules
- Eastside WDFW access areas
September
- Eastside WDFW access areasWSR 24-20-099 filed on
CR-103E supplemental documents
- Upper Columbia River recreational salmon
- Hoh River, including South Fork and tributaries recreational fishing
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Recreational razor clams
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Blue, Deep, and Park lakes of Grant County gamefish seasons
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- Elochoman River recreational fishing
- Stillaguamish River recreational salmon
- Drano Lake recreational salmon and steelhead
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Hoh River, including South Fork and tributaries recreational fishing
- West Medical Lake trout and other gamefish
- Puget Sound commercial gillnets, Area 6D
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- 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
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Snohomish watershed recreational fishing seasons
- Marine Area 8-2 recreational salmon
- Skagit River recreational fishing closure
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial reef nets
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Columbia River commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Yale Reservoir recreational salmon
- Feeding prohibition for deer, elk, and moose
- Puget Sound commercial reef nets
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Recreational salmon daily limits in Quillayute River system
- Puget Sound commercial salmon beach seine seasons
- Marine Area 11 recreational salmon
- Deschutes River recreational fishing
- Columbia River treaty commercial salmon seasons
- Columbia River commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp trawl seasons
- Area 12C commercial beach seine seasons
August
- Costs of providing public records
- Marine Area 8-2 recreational salmon
- Coastal commercial crab fishery
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- 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 commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Columbia River treaty commercial gillnets
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Upper Columbia River, Chelan River, and Entiat River recreational salmon
- Rimrock Reservoir (Lake) and South Fork Tieton River gamefish
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Puget Sound recreational salmon, areas 7 and 10
- Puget Sound commercial gillnets, areas 7B and 7C
July
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Puget Sound Commercial Shrimp pot fishery
- Puget Sound recreational salmon, areas 7, 9, and 10
- Marine Area 5 recreational salmon
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Wenatchee River recreational salmon
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Coastal recreational bottomfish
- Marine Areas 10 and 11 recreational salmon
- Skagit River salmon seasons
- Recreational halibut seasons
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Upper Columbia River recreational salmon
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Lake Wenatchee sockeye
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Skagit River recreational salmon
- Special Hunt Permits
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Puget sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Puget Sound recreational shrimp
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp pot fishery
- Cowlitz River, Klickitat River, Lewis River recreational fisheries
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Entiat River recreational salmon
June
- Southern Resident killer whale vulnerable individual designations
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Department land use - wildfire prevention
- Puget Sound recreational salmon
- Cascade River and Skagit River recreational fishing
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp trawl fishery
- Puget Sound Recreational shrimp
- Snohomish basin recreational fishing update
- Puget Sound recreational salmon
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Coastal commercial crab fishery
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Snohomish Basin recreational fishing
- Fox trapping seasons
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- 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
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Skagit River and Cascade River recreational salmon
- 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
- Skagit River, Cascade River, Marine Area 13 recreational salmon
- Marine Area 8-2, Marine Area 11 recreational salmon
- Nooksack River and all forks recreational fishing
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Coastal salmon troll seasons--Commercial
- Icicle River recreational salmon
- Snohomish River system recreational fishing
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Puget Sound and Skagit River recreational salmon
- Recreational razor clams
April
- Snake River recreational salmon
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Coastal commercial crab
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Marine Area 5 recreational salmon
- Recreational razor clams
- Skagit River salmon seasons
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget sound recreational salmon (Marine areas 10 and 11)
- Coastal commercial crab
- 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
- Commercial sea urchins
- Kopachuck State Park recreational clams, mussels, and oysters
- Recreational halibut seasons
- Salmon Creek (Clark Co.) hatchery steelhead
- Recreational sturgeon
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Commercial sea urchins
- Commercial sea urchins
- Recreational razor clams
February
- Coastal commercial crab
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Recreational smelt
- Columbia River Treaty fishery above Bonneville
- Columbia River recreational salmon
- Commercial coastal crab
- Columbia River recreational sturgeon
- Recreational clams, oysters and mussels
- Puget sound recreational salmon
- Wildlife trapping seasons
- Commercial sea urchins
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River commercial salmon (below Bonneville)
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Recreational eulachon smelt
- Columbia River Treaty Indian fishery
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial crab gear
- Recreational razor clams
January
- Commercial smelt
- Recreational razor clams
- Coastal commercial crab
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Sauk and Skagit rivers recreational steelhead
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Recreational sturgeon
- Recreational razor clams
- Coastal commercial crab landings