Series of disputes over oyster harvesting in Maryland and Virginia
Oyster Wars
Oyster War engagement in 1886
Date
1865–1959
Location
Chesapeake Bay Potomac River
Parties
Oyster pirates
New England fishermen
Legal watermen
United States
Maryland
Virginia
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.
^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.
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