How One Family Built A Shellfish Empire On Puget Sound

Bill Taylor looks out at Samish Bay as the waterline creeps lower and lower on a dreary overcast April day.

“When the tide goes out, what's exposed, we own it,” he says peering out at a 5-acre chunk of muck. “It will go completely dry from the shore over to Samish Island,” he says pointing out from his rustic office located on a dead-end road off Chuckanut Drive in Bow, about 45 miles north of Everett.

As more of the gray bay is exposed, darkening tones of sand and sky seem to blend together, creating a double-image of still life along the tidal flats of the Pacific Northwest.

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