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
- Fox Trapping Season
- Commercial sea urchins
- Nooksack River recreational salmon
- Recreational razor clams
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Prohibited level 1 species
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons areas 12 and 12B
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Puget Sound commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial beach seine seasons Area 12C
- Puget Sound purse seine test fishing
- Columbia River recreational sturgeon
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine and gillnet seasons Area 12C
- Recreational razor clams
- Special Hunt Permits
- Snohomish, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Wallace rivers, and Tokul Creek recreational fishing 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
- Puget Sound commercial purse seine 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 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
- Cascade River and Skagit River recreational fishing
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead seasons
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Recreational razor clams
- 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
- Skagit River recreational fishing seasons
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Puget Sound commercial sea urchins
- 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 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
- Puget Sound commercial gillnets, Area 6D
- Marine Area 7 recreational salmon
- Hoh River, including South Fork and tributaries recreational fishing
- West Medical Lake trout and other gamefish
- Columbia River above Bonneville treaty commercial
- Upper Columbia River and Icicle River recreational salmon seasons
- Willapa Bay commercial salmon
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Skagit River recreational fishing
- Marine Area 8-2 recreational salmon
- Columbia River below Bonneville commercial
- Snohomish watershed recreational fishing seasons
- Skagit River recreational fishing closure
- Puget Sound commercial reef nets
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- 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
- 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 recreational salmon seasons
- Coastal commercial crab fishery
- Deer, elk, and moose hunting and salvaging reporting
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial Beach Seine fishery
- 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
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Columbia River commercial salmon below Bonneville
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Columbia River treaty commercial gillnets
- 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
- 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
- Columbia River commercial salmon
- Recreational halibut seasons
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Upper Columbia River recreational salmon
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Lake Wenatchee sockeye
- Special Hunt Permits
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Skagit River recreational salmon
- 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
- Coastal commercial troll fishery
- Southern Resident killer whale vulnerable individual designations
- Columbia River Treaty fishery
- Lower Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Cascade River and Skagit River recreational fishing
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Department land use - wildfire prevention
- Puget Sound recreational salmon
- 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
- Snohomish Basin recreational fishing
- Commercial razor clam seasons
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Fox trapping seasons
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Puget Sound recreational crab seasons
- Puget Sound recreational shrimp
- May Creek (tributary of Wallace River) recreational fishing
- Puget Sound commercial shrimp
- Columbia River Treaty Indian fishery
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- Skagit River and Cascade River recreational salmon
- Coastal recreational salmon seasons
- Snake 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
- Skagit River salmon seasons
- Marine Area 5 recreational salmon
- Recreational razor clams
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- Puget sound recreational salmon (Marine areas 10 and 11)
- Coastal commercial crab
- Puget Sound Recreational shrimp
- Columbia River recreational salmon and steelhead
- 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
- Recreational smelt
- Coastal commercial crab
- Southwest Washington streams recreational salmon
- Columbia River Treaty fishery above Bonneville
- Columbia River recreational sturgeon
- Columbia River recreational salmon
- Commercial coastal crab
- Recreational clams, oysters and mussels
- Puget sound recreational salmon
- Commercial sea urchins
- Wildlife trapping seasons
- Recreational razor clams
- Columbia River commercial salmon (below Bonneville)
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Puget Sound commercial crab
- 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
- Sauk and Skagit rivers recreational steelhead
- Commercial sea cucumbers
- Recreational sturgeon
- Recreational razor clams
- Coastal commercial crab landings