Samish River
| Samish River | ||
 Samish River at Edison |
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| location | Washington (USA) | |
| River system | Samish River | |
| muzzle | in the Samish Bay des Puget Sound Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 55 " N , 122 ° 27 ′ 11" W 48 ° 33 ′ 55 " N , 122 ° 27 ′ 11" W |
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| length | 40 km | |
| Catchment area | 360 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Friday Creek | |
| Small towns | Edison | |
The Samish River is a 40 km long river in northwest Washington in the United States.
It drains an area of around 360 km² between the catchment area of the Skagit River in the south and that of the Nooksack River in the north. The Samish River rises on the low watershed in Whatcom County and its tributary, Friday Creek, comes from the hill country south of Bellingham . The river follows a southwesterly direction through Skagit County before pouring into Samish Bay of the Puget Sound .
A number of fish species live in the river, including four types of salmon and three types of trout . There are two fish hatcheries in the Samish River catchment area. One is on the upper reaches at the mouth of Friday Creek and another a few kilometers above this tributary. The two fish farms produce over ten million young fish annually, of which around 5–20,000 return on annual migrations one to five years later.
The average annual discharge (between 1944 and 1971 and 1997-2006) was 7 m³ / s, the highest value of 165 m³ / s was observed on December 28, 1949, the lowest discharge was 0.3 m³ / s on July 10 1951.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ United States Geological Survey . Water Data Report Washington 2006 (PDF; 107 kB). Retrieved February 17, 2008.