Samish River

Samish River at Edison

It drains an area of approximately 360 km ² between the catchment area of ​​the Skagit River in the south and the north of the Nooksack River. The Samish River has its origin at the lower watershed in Whatcom County and its tributary. the Friday Creek, comes from the hills south of Bellingham. The river follows a southwesterly direction through the Skagit County before it empties into the Samish Bay of Puget Sound.

In the river a number of fish species, including four types of salmon and three kinds of trout live. In the catchment area of the Samish River, there are two fish rearing stations. One is located at the headwaters to the mouth of the creek Friday and another a few miles above this inflow. The two fish farms produce over ten million young fish return from those at the annual migrations from one to five years later about 5-20,000 annually.

The annual average discharge ( 1944-1971 and 1997-2006 ) was 7 m³ / s, the highest value of 165 m³ / s was observed on 28 December 1949, the lowest runoff were 0.3 m³ / s on July 10, in 1951.