Breaking News, Court News, Outdoor Life, poaching, Police Beat Pirate Poachers of the Chesapeake: Say hello to Piggy! James Horseman nabbed with 152 bushels of undersized oysters poached from Bay Posted onMarch 2, 2016March 2, 2016 It’s called poaching when outlaw watermen rob from the Chesapeake Bay what has been called ‘white gold’ for the last one-hundred and fifty years.