Take a look at some of those regional plans. They are not thrown together. They are big. All encompassing.

I have been reading the snake river plan, it is not finished either. There is one heck of a lot that goes into those plans and with Puget Sound, putting it all into one plan may have been in error. On the snake, one plan is likely correct since all those fish have to traverse 8 dams both ways. And the dams in spite of spill have a major effect on the outmigrating smolts.

I would rather Puget Sound was divided up into smaller plans, say at the watershed level.
But NOAA is doing all these plans on a regional basis. When I sent an email with a question, it took several days to get an answer and sometimes with all the state and federal entities the person answering your email is not office staff. They are directors and excutives as often as the desk clerk.

Its a budget problem everyone shares.