BIVALVE, N.J. - Clyde Phillips, 78, looked past the docks and the old oyster shipping sheds that are now the Bayshore Discovery Project and past its showpiece, the floating museum A.J. Meerwald, covered in plastic for the winter, and fixed his blue-eyed gaze on the only thing unchanged in all the years he has taken in this scene: the Maurice River emptying into Delaware Bay.