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You can't sell a fish at the dock that you've released, and the commercial harvest does not include short fish, high-grading, or the vibrant black market trade in illegal striped bass.
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You can't sell a fish at the dock that you've released, and the commercial harvest does not include short fish, high-grading, or the vibrant black market trade in illegal striped bass.
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The article linked to the story of the Copper Strike Mine and its Hanging Tree, where men were hanged for “high-grading,” which, from what she gathered, consisted of snitching the biggest nuggets from the ore wagons.
At Her Beck and Call Atkins, Dawn 2007
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Nor were the company executives wrong for allowing high-grading.
Fish on the Pill? Ed Hollett 2007
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In forests near farms and towns, practices such as burning and high-grading harvesting only the best trees have left an especially high percentage of dead or diseased trees.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In forests near farms and towns, practices such as burning and high-grading harvesting only the best trees have left an especially high percentage of dead or diseased trees.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In forests near farms and towns, practices such as burning and high-grading harvesting only the best trees have left an especially high percentage of dead or diseased trees.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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He had to be shown that high-grading was costing him the very thing he was trying to find.
The Great Gray Plague Raymond F. Jones 1954
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"You're high-grading and you should be using a flotation process."
The Great Gray Plague Raymond F. Jones 1954
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I thought maybe you had been doing a little high-grading or had been up there and sneaked away some of the ore for a salting proposition.
The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913
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