Oyster Wars

Oyster Wars
Oyster War engagement in 1886
Date1865–1959
Location
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac River
Parties
Casualties and losses
Unknown deaths and arrests
Unknown deaths

The Oyster Wars were a series of sometimes violent disputes between oyster pirates and authorities and legal watermen from Maryland and Virginia in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River from 1865[1] until about 1959.

  1. ^ White, Christopher (2009). Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-312-54532-1. Retrieved March 16, 2011.